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The DOJ Redacted a Photo of the Mona Lisa in the Epstein Files (www.404media.co)
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The Department of Justice redacted the face of the Mona Lisa, a 522-year-old painting of an Italian woman who died centuries ago, as part of its release of files related to the late convicted sex offender Jeffery Epstein.

In a PDF of an email with the subject line “simply paris” sent on July 3, 2009, a redacted sender sent Epstein several photos of, presumably, himself and a woman sightseeing in Paris. The photos of the woman are all redacted with a black box over her face, but the man’s face is visible.

The photos are from tourist locations like Disneyland Paris, the Versailles fountains, and the Louvre, where the Mona Lisa is installed. “We just walked around all over the city not just the sight seeing...we took like 1500 pictures so was really difficult to decide wich to send! :)” the sender wrote at the end of the email.

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[–] manniesalado@piefed.social 5 points 55 minutes ago

AI did that!

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 25 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

They posted an update, an official statement said that a victims face was overlaid over the artwork.

So while this probably seemed ridiculous, there was a valid reason.

[–] Kalon@feddit.online 26 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

In a functioning government this would make sense.

Unfortunately I don't take anything they say as fact anymore.

[–] Captainvaqina@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 minutes ago

I take everything these unhumans spew as what it actually is - the exact opposite of fact.

[–] scintilla@crust.piefed.social 21 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

This kinda confirms to me that they used AI to do the majority of the redaction.

[–] Mac@mander.xyz 10 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

Reading is hard.

DOJ told 404 Media that the unredacted version of the document in question contains an image of a victim’s face overlayed on the face of the Mona Lisa image.

[–] scintilla@crust.piefed.social 7 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I don't belive them. I have no reason to belive them.

[–] harmbugler@piefed.social 3 points 54 minutes ago

There are many reasons to not believe them.

[–] Hacksaw@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

That's weird that you'd believe the DOJ over any other plausible theory they're trying to discredit.

[–] plantfanatic@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

So to prove it they need to post the picture? Dumb argument.

[–] scintilla@crust.piefed.social 5 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

This is the same DOJ that we know is illegally censoring pedophiles names. Why should we belive them?

[–] plantfanatic@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Occams razor

[–] scintilla@crust.piefed.social 5 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Exactly. The lying Liars who lie keep lying and it explains all the weird shit we keep seeing with the redactions. Glad you agree.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

the Mona Lisa, a 522-year-old painting of an Italian woman

Damn. I remember when that was brand new, and everyone was talking about it. In modern times, I believe the kids today would call it a "sick meme".

We didn't use such words back then. We called it "art".

Now you got all these yolkels hosting what they call "renaissance fairs", but they completely missed the point of them. It wasn't a festival. It was just a typical tuesday at the market! I like going to these renaissance fairs for the nostolgia, but they don't actually sell usefull goods or services. Instead they set up a "gift shop". Ugh. I just want to buy a decapitated head of a lamb, and a rack of ribs. Why do I have to go to your air conditioned big box grocery stores to do it? I want to buy it off the wooden cart of a traveling salesmen like it was INTENDED GOD DAMMIT!

turns into a bat and flys away

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 2 points 51 minutes ago

Username checks out.

[–] MantisToboggon@lemmy.world 7 points 4 hours ago

Epstein fucking everybody!