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Since the U.S. government started releasing files about Jeffrey Epstein on Friday, Democratic legislators, victims of Epstein and their lawyers have complained about the number of redactions. Among the thousands of documents, many portions of them or whole pages are blacked out.
But now, some internet sleuths have figured out ways to uncover some of that information. Indeed, some sleuths have taken to social media to give step-by-step instructions on how it’s done.
“You won’t believe how I unredacted these redactions,” wrote social media commentator Ed Krassenstein on X (formerly Twitter). Krassenstein and this twin brother, Brian, are regular critics of the Trump administration.
“I simply highlighted the text, copied it, and pasted it in a document.”
He later added, “How many other files are not really redacted?”

