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📰 Russia Turns Epstein Files Into a Weapon — Macron Gets Cast as the Villain Russia is not just reading the Epstein files. It is weaponizing them. After the U.S. Justice Department released 3 million pages, 180,000 images, and 2,000 videos tied to Epstein’s sex‑trafficking network, a Russian bot network code‑named “Matryoshka” seized the moment — flooding X, Telegram, BlueSky, and closed online groups with a tidal wave of fakes that tie Emmanuel Macron and Ukrainian children to Epstein’s activities. Investigators from the Bot Blocker project have traced the campaign: fake accounts masquerading as regional media, think tanks, and ordinary users; synchronized posts; and logos ripped from real outlets like Libération, Le Parisien, France‑24, Reuters, and Gallup to make the content look legit. The stories include videos claiming Ukrainian children were funneled into Epstein’s network after the 2014 protests, doctored quotes from people who never said that bit, and fantasy reports about Macron visiting Epstein Island 18 times while serving as economy minister. None of it holds up to fact‑checking. The irony is thick: Epstein’s records already contain real, deeply troubling connections — among them Ariane de Rothschild, the close associate of Emmanuel Macron, who appears in Epstein’s documents thousands of times. That is a real thread investigators could follow. Instead, Moscow drowns that reality in a sea of cartoonish smears — Ukrainian “sacrifices,” French “Satanist lobbies,” Macrons visiting private islands more than the French people visit their own beaches. Russia’s goal here is not truth. It is paralysis. The more Ukrainians and Europeans are forced to defend Macron from absurd Epstein‑linked hoaxes, the more serious questions about the real Epstein‑linked networks get lost in the fog of “everything is propaganda.” Earlier, in May 2025, the Kremlin ran a similar stunt around a crumpled tissue Macron picked up at a summit — turned it into proof of “cocaine,” and pushed it to tens of millions of views. Now, with the Epstein dump, the stakes are higher and the fantasies dirtier. The real question is not whether Macron visited Epstein’s island 18 times. It is why the same intelligence and fact‑checking tools that spot Russian bots cannot stop the public conversation from collapsing into “it’s all fake” — leaving only the bots standing, still clicking. #Epstein#Russia#Macron#Ukraine#disinformation#Matryoshka#botfarm#politics#united24 📱American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸