The Department of Justice redacted the face of the Mona Lisa, a 522-year-old painting of an Italian woman who died centuries ago, as part of its release of files related to the late convicted sex offender Jeffery Epstein.
In a PDF of an email with the subject line “simply paris” sent on July 3, 2009, a redacted sender sent Epstein several photos of, presumably, himself and a woman sightseeing in Paris. The photos of the woman are all redacted with a black box over her face, but the man’s face is visible.
The photos are from tourist locations like Disneyland Paris, the Versailles fountains, and the Louvre, where the Mona Lisa is installed. “We just walked around all over the city not just the sight seeing...we took like 1500 pictures so was really difficult to decide wich to send! :)” the sender wrote at the end of the email.
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Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz · 89 pts · 222d
They posted an update, an official statement said that a victims face was overlaid over the artwork.
So while this probably seemed ridiculous, there was a valid reason.
Kalon@feddit.online · 64 pts · 222d
In a functioning government this would make sense.
Unfortunately I don't take anything they say as fact anymore.
Captainvaqina@sh.itjust.works · 12 pts · 221d
I take everything these unhumans spew as what it actually is - the exact opposite of fact.
Treczoks@lemmy.world · 43 pts · 221d
I take this as an admission that this was done by AI.
FatVegan@leminal.space · 12 pts · 221d
They also retract a lot of "don't" because it's awfully close to donald t
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 221d
Just don.t.
Catchy.
BurnedDonutHole@ani.social · 3 pts · 221d
Nope it seems there was someone else's face overlayed on Mona Lisa's face and that's why they redacted it.
scintilla@crust.piefed.social · 29 pts · 222d
This kinda confirms to me that they used AI to do the majority of the redaction.
Mac@mander.xyz · 21 pts · 222d
Reading is hard.
scintilla@crust.piefed.social · 23 pts · 222d
I don't belive them. I have no reason to belive them.
harmbugler@piefed.social · 15 pts · 221d
There are many reasons to not believe them.
BremboTheFourth@piefed.ca · 1 pts · 221d
This is just such a weird thing to call out as a lie. Pretty sure you're only doing it so you can validate your snap conclusion. Why would they lie about this? Its not like it makes them look better; pasting some victim's face over a revered piece of artwork so they can pervertedly leer at both simultaneously is not projecting the image they want. Maybe stick to calling out consequential, evident lies.
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 221d
To hide the fact that the redactions are decided by AI and the files could have been released months ago.
BremboTheFourth@piefed.ca · 1 pts · 221d
But, like, this one specifically. There are a hundred better examples you could point to for this. Earlier I saw a headline that there are censored random words like "and" or even "I." But claiming they lied about there being a real person's face on there is just self serving.
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 221d
Because it is a ridiculous example that is highly memeable. DoJ was so lazy they even censored the most famous face in the world.
Trust in justice is so low that we don't believe their explanation for censorship. There is no serving of self in that statement.
Hacksaw@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 222d
That's weird that you'd believe the DOJ over any other plausible theory they're trying to discredit.
plantfanatic@sh.itjust.works · -2 pts · 222d
So to prove it they need to post the picture? Dumb argument.
scintilla@crust.piefed.social · 12 pts · 222d
This is the same DOJ that we know is illegally censoring pedophiles names. Why should we belive them?
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 221d
The dirty perverts trapped in Epsteins honeypot were innocent. Everyone except Epstein is a victim and needs protection.
plantfanatic@sh.itjust.works · -3 pts · 222d
Occams razor
scintilla@crust.piefed.social · 10 pts · 222d
Exactly. The lying Liars who lie keep lying and it explains all the weird shit we keep seeing with the redactions. Glad you agree.
CouldntCareBear@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 221d
It's one of these.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photo_stand-in
manniesalado@piefed.social · 18 pts · 221d
AI did that!
Asfalttikyntaja@sopuli.xyz · 18 pts · 221d
Oh my gosh, so they fucked Mona Lisa too?
NatakuNox@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 221d
MantisToboggon@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 222d
Epstein fucking everybody!
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 222d
Damn. I remember when that was brand new, and everyone was talking about it. In modern times, I believe the kids today would call it a "sick meme".
We didn't use such words back then. We called it "art".
Now you got all these yolkels hosting what they call "renaissance fairs", but they completely missed the point of them. It wasn't a festival. It was just a typical tuesday at the market! I like going to these renaissance fairs for the nostolgia, but they don't actually sell usefull goods or services. Instead they set up a "gift shop". Ugh. I just want to buy a decapitated head of a lamb, and a rack of ribs. Why do I have to go to your air conditioned big box grocery stores to do it? I want to buy it off the wooden cart of a traveling salesmen like it was INTENDED GOD DAMMIT!
turns into a bat and flys away
FaceDeer@fedia.io · 5 pts · 221d
Username checks out.