The Epstein files (unsurprisingly) being used for political attacks

After several years the United States Department of Justice finally released to the public all the files that it had confiscated from the late Jeffrey Epstein. All 3 million pages of it.

Unsurprisingly, 3 million pages contain the names of a huge amount of people.

Also unsurprisingly, a lot of people are abusing those files and people's appearance in them for political purposes and attacks.

One has to remember that that's a raw dump of all business documents, correspondence, contracts, emails and everything else that the DoJ could gather from the late Epstein. If he sent a "happy birthday!" or a "Merry Christmas!" email to someone, it will be there.

Epstein had a huge amount of contacts and business deals with a huge amount of powerful people over the decades. Not all of it had anything to do with his infamous island and the illegal activities being done there. Much of this correspondence was probably just completely normal and legal business dealings or personal messages that had nothing to do with that.

Also, even some of the correspondence that is actually related to the infamous island might not actually implicate the recipient, as some people actually refused to have anything to do with it.

Which means that a lot of people whose name appears in the 3 million files didn't necessarily do anything wrong nor were in any way related to or implicated with the illegal activities organized by Epstein.

But of course political activists don't care: They are literally automatically searching for the names of their political enemies in the files and attacking those people based on whether the names appear there or not (and how many times they appear), completely regardless of which context they appear in. Even if it's just a random email where Epstein sent a "Happy Birthday!" message to one of those people, doesn't matter: Activists are still using it to attack their political enemies.

One should keep a cool head and always remember: Even if someone's name appears in the files (regardless of whether you like that person or not), one should check the context in which the name appears. Merely the name appearing in the 3 million files is not enough to draw any conclusions.