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■ In this week’s Inner Loop: David Gilbert, our resident expert on disinformation and online extremism, breaks down President Donald Trump’s attempts to control the Jeffrey Epstein narrative.

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Hi, it's David Gilbert here. For almost a decade, President Donald Trump has managed to control the conspiracy theory spin around disgraced financier and registered sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The conspiracy theories benefited him; they were one of the factors buoying him to office. It’s only been in the last few weeks—spurred by the release of new Epstein documents and the public defection of GOP lawamkers—that the complex web of misinformation has spun out of Trump’s control...

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November 19, 4:07 pm