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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSnopes; Did Google Remove Photos of Bill Clinton with Epstein from Search Results? FALSE!
It is quite easy to hide something that apparently didn't exist in the first place.
By Dan Evon
Published 10 JULY 2019
Claim
Google removed images of Bill Clinton with Jeffrey Epstein from their search results.
Rating
False
Origin
In July 2019, registered sex offender and hedge fund manager Jeffrey Epstein was arrested on charges relating to the sex trafficking of minors. In addition to the severity of the alleged crimes, Epsteins arrest made headlines due to his connections to well-known public figures and politicians, including President Donald Trump and former President Bill Clinton.
The news of Epsteins arrest sent political partisans into overdrive as they attempted to show that politicians on their side were less involved with Epstein than politicians on the other side. So when images of President Trump with Epstein were published by news outlets and circulated on social media, his defenders were upset not to see similar images of Bill Clinton with Epstein being given equal prominence. This led to a rumor that Google was scrubbing, removing, or deindexing images of Clinton and Epstein together from search results as part of a cover-up to protect the Clintons.
Twitter users Paul Sperry, Jack Murphy, and BNL News all claimed, without evidence, that images of Epstein and Clinton together had been removed from Googles search results, and their tweets were collectively shared thousands of times over:
These claims are without merit. These tweets provided no evidence that images of Clinton with Epstein could be found on Google prior to the latters arrest in July 2019, nor any proof that Google had removed these alleged images from their search results in the aftermath of Epsteins incarceration. In fact, they provided no evidence that photographs of Clinton with Epstein even existed at all.
Twitter user Robert Barnes inflated this rumor by claiming that while Google wouldnt show photographs of Epstein and Clinton together, such images were findable using other search engines, such as DuckDuckGo:
This simply wasnt the case.
We searched for images of Clinton together with Epstein on Google, Yahoo, Bing, DuckDuckGo, and Yandex. The results for all five of these search engines were similar, with none of them turning up a genuine photograph of Epstein together with Clinton...
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By Dan Evon
Published 10 JULY 2019
Claim
Google removed images of Bill Clinton with Jeffrey Epstein from their search results.
Rating
False
Origin
In July 2019, registered sex offender and hedge fund manager Jeffrey Epstein was arrested on charges relating to the sex trafficking of minors. In addition to the severity of the alleged crimes, Epsteins arrest made headlines due to his connections to well-known public figures and politicians, including President Donald Trump and former President Bill Clinton.
The news of Epsteins arrest sent political partisans into overdrive as they attempted to show that politicians on their side were less involved with Epstein than politicians on the other side. So when images of President Trump with Epstein were published by news outlets and circulated on social media, his defenders were upset not to see similar images of Bill Clinton with Epstein being given equal prominence. This led to a rumor that Google was scrubbing, removing, or deindexing images of Clinton and Epstein together from search results as part of a cover-up to protect the Clintons.
Twitter users Paul Sperry, Jack Murphy, and BNL News all claimed, without evidence, that images of Epstein and Clinton together had been removed from Googles search results, and their tweets were collectively shared thousands of times over:
These claims are without merit. These tweets provided no evidence that images of Clinton with Epstein could be found on Google prior to the latters arrest in July 2019, nor any proof that Google had removed these alleged images from their search results in the aftermath of Epsteins incarceration. In fact, they provided no evidence that photographs of Clinton with Epstein even existed at all.
Twitter user Robert Barnes inflated this rumor by claiming that while Google wouldnt show photographs of Epstein and Clinton together, such images were findable using other search engines, such as DuckDuckGo:
This simply wasnt the case.
We searched for images of Clinton together with Epstein on Google, Yahoo, Bing, DuckDuckGo, and Yandex. The results for all five of these search engines were similar, with none of them turning up a genuine photograph of Epstein together with Clinton...
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Snopes; Did Google Remove Photos of Bill Clinton with Epstein from Search Results? FALSE! (Original Post)
Dennis Donovan
Jul 2019
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Trumpsters are claiming there are flight records of Bill flying on Epstein's jet
IronLionZion
Jul 2019
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True Blue American
(17,984 posts)1. Smile
Although I have no doubt they partied together. Epstein did not like Hillary. I doubt she liked him much either.
IronLionZion
(45,447 posts)2. Trumpsters are claiming there are flight records of Bill flying on Epstein's jet
to Epstein's private islands while Trump supposedly has records of reporting it to police.