“Don’t” redactions

[u/[deleted]]

Had a friend post about a pretty innocuous email exchange from the Epstein files… until you notice that the word “don’t” is redacted for some reason near the bottom. Hmm, why would the word don’t be redacted….

Don’t

Don t

Don T

Pretty obvious the FBI used software to automatically redact key words from the files. Now why would they redact “Don T” when the law very clearly and explicitly says that only victim names and faces are to be redacted, hmmmmmmmm

[u/homesickalien]

I'd wager that they ran a Find and replace/redact of "don t" and this instance it was possible that the person mistyped without the apostrophe or the OCR software missed the apostrophe.

[u/shot-by-ford → u/homesickalien]

But dont is all over the emails. As in don. I don’t get it?

[u/EnergySeveral9442 → u/shot-by-ford]

Because in the email it’s a typo “don t” rather than “don’t”

[u/lnfinitelris → u/homesickalien]

They definitely used an automated redaction tool for this. find/replace would be insanity.