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Has anyone actually tried this?
I did. I checked both the “Masseuses” and the “Contact Book,” (mentioned in the X comments as being not redacted correctly), and they seem to be redacted properly. I’ve tried 3 PDF readers, but I’d be curious what actually works.
You have to scroll a while in the original comments to find someone who actually tried it, and it didn’t work for them either.
It’s hilarious that everyone is just believing it though.
Yay, someone else is actually covering it!
I’ve done all 18,000 pdfs. This must have happened in one document. The vast majority are redacted correctly.
This looks like a disinformation campaign to distract from other stuff. “Some people are saying there are word in the document that should not be in the documents, so we have to wonder how they got there”.
The entire thing is a classic disinformation campaign. Right before Christmas. Multiple tranche release. Then pullbacks and rerelease. Maximum confusion. Make sure nobody knows who to trust.
Fun fact: this technique was developed in Russia.
Maybe I’m wrong but the whole thing seemed like bullshit. No other news organization I can find has picked this story up, after ten hours. Obviously no one can replicate the results.
About thirty minutes ago, USA Today published an article that Trump’s name is in plain text several times in documents released today. No redaction copy and paste necessary.
People are eating it up though.
The incompetence is… here! 😱
*has always been here
Eating it up in what way?
Note you have to paste into something that doesn't recognize the highlighting. Notepad used to work.
Yeah there's been some wild stuff coming out but this is implausible. Actual journalists who regularly deal with redacted docs must've been through most of it by now.
If this were true i don't think would be a tweet, it would be an uncontainable story.
Edit: well it seems to have become an uncontainable story, though it's a small amount of files.