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Epstein Arrest Leaves Top Technology Figures Racing to Distance Themselves

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132 points AndrewBissell | 1 comments | 31 Jul 19 14:45 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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camjohnson26 ◴[31 Jul 19 17:04 UTC] No.20576121[source]▶
According to the article the list of prominent tech figures who socialized with Epstein includes:

Sergey Brin

Richard Branson

Jason Calacanis

Bill Gates

Reid Hoffman

Elon Musk

Nathan Myhrvold

Mark Zuckerberg

That’s an impressive list.

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dx87 ◴[31 Jul 19 17:23 UTC] No.20576334[source]▶
Not all of those names belong together in your list. The article says Bill Gates talked to him once at a social event, and his representative claims they never worked together. Some of the others on the list were in Eptsein's "Black Book" that he kept.
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Balgair ◴[31 Jul 19 17:48 UTC] No.20576585[source]▶
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passivepinetree ◴[31 Jul 19 17:56 UTC] No.20576646{3}[source]▶
Yes. It's both mentioned and linked to in the article on which we are commenting.
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bogwog ◴[31 Jul 19 18:04 UTC] No.20576715{4}[source]▶
Which you can't read unless you pay
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1. greenyoda ◴[31 Jul 19 18:21 UTC] No.20576858{5}[source]▶
If you turn off cookies and JavaScript in your browser, you can read this and many other paywalled sites. I'm using the uMatrix[1] extension, which can automatically do this on a per-site basis.

[1] https://github.com/gorhill/uMatrix