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To be fair to some of them, almost nobody who isn't already deeply committed to following the story is going to rage-read an article or watch a news segment titled "Child Rapist who owns your life accused of murdering infant belonging to a 13 year old, threw corpse into Lake Superior" instead a lot of them are going to turn the screen off or go work on the new terraria achievements.
What's more wild to me is no matter how they phrase it you've still got fucking nutjobs yelling "both sides bad" or even outright supporting these pedos.
Sure, clickbait headlines don't really work, that's why they don't use those at all...
I would say its the other way around:
They purposedly use extra mild language to report these news so they don't catch people's eyes that much, while still claiming to report the news.
Next, they put news of Alleged Domestic Terrorists Rene Good and Alex Pretti in all caps.
The headline I described would be far more accurate than most, literally the opposition to clickbait.
~~I meant clickbait as "The most impactfull headline to catch the most views", not as unrealistic.~~
Edit: I guess I had a wrong understanding of the word, I stand corrected!
I think your original definition works well, it is just that the most honest and accurate headline is mutually exclusive from an exaggerated or misrepresented headline used to generate more views.
It's a good thing Bill Clinton isn't in those files. Or Larry Summers, or Reid Hoffman, or Noam Chomsky, or Kathryn Ruemmler, who served as White House Counsel under Obama, or Stacey Plaskett, who was literally on the phone texting with Epstein while she was on the floor during a hearing with Cohen about Trump. But sure, keep telling yourself it's not "both sides"
Are you trying to tell me Kathryn and Stacey were buying child sex slaves?
Also, I haven't considered Noam leftwing since long before the files came out, the dude is a Red Fascist advocating for Ukraine to surrender to Russia.
Keep in mind the only reason anybody is seeing any of these files right now is because every Democrat in congress forced the release.
No, it's actually because of Ro Khanna and Thomas Massie. Massie is republican, a libertarian if you wonna be kind. Think senate vote to release them was unanimous, and house was like 1 against. Way more credit should be given to Marjorie Taylor Green and Nancy Mace for the release than to pretty much every single Democrat.
In September 2025, the Senate Judiciary Committee including EVERY DEMOCRAT and Representative Thomas Massie, filed a discharge petition in support of the bill. On November 12, the discharge petition received the minimum-required 218 signatures needed, from 4 Republican representatives and 214 Democratic Party representatives , forcing a House vote on the bill.
Before that in the House Rules Committee Republicans shot down a forced vote 8-4 along party lines.
Before that the House and Senate had voted on it along party lines with Democrats for and Republicans against.
https://www.congress.gov/votes/house/119-1/194?q=%7B%22search%22%3A%22hres+580%22%7D&s=8&r=3
https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1191/vote_119_1_00512.htm
These files are out because of the DNC and they would have been out last year if not for Republicans being against the release in solidarity.
Yeah, that's fair. Most Reps did hold it up, only to have almost all vote later to release it, for what reason, I still don't know, and the law is still being broken, as they were all supposed to have been released by now, mostly unredacted.
Are you gonna be consistent now that it's out that Zelenskyy is also in the Epstein Files, and it looks like he also had a meeting with him, and that Ukraine may have also been a scouting spot for the child sex trafficking ring?
According solely to Russian State Run RIA Novosty media organization.
In contrast, Kyiv claims that former Prime Minister Robert Fico who was very friendly to Russia is in the Epstein files, which would certainly make more sense given Zelensky was elected the same year Epstein hung himself in prison.
Look, if you can find a reputable source that Zelensky is a Necromancer then please do, or better yet go find the actual files since they are public, but until then I haven't seen anything of the sort.
Her source is a MAGA pizzagate influencer and it just goes directly to his page