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This Tool Searches the Epstein Files For Your LinkedIn Contacts (www.404media.co)
submitted 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) by tonytins@pawb.social to c/technology@lemmy.world
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A new tool searches your LinkedIn connections for people who are mentioned in the Epstein files, just in case you don’t, understandably, want anything to do with them on the already deranged social network.

404 Media tested the tool, called EpsteIn—as in, a mash up of Epstein and LinkedIn—and it appears to work.

“I found myself wondering whether anyone had mapped Epstein's network in the style of LinkedIn—how many people are 1st/2nd/3rd degree connections of Jeffrey Epstein?” Christopher Finke, the creator of the tool, told 404 Media in an email. “Smarter programmers than me have already built tools to visualize that, but I couldn't find anything that would show the overlap between my network and his.”

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[–] ramble81@lemmy.zip 5 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

For reference, everyone is 3rd degree at a minimum.

  • 1st - You’re directly connected with them
  • 2nd - The person is connected with a person you’re a 1st degree connection with
  • 3rd - People that are not connected to any 1st or 2nd degree connections (I.e. everyone else)

Edit: the description above is how linked in does it, not Kevin Bacon degrees. So if you try to find 3rd degree connections to Epstein on LI, you’re basically going to return everyone on the platform.

[–] asqapro@reddthat.com 5 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

Maybe I'm missing something, but 3rd degree would be the person is connected with a person you're 2nd degree connection with, right? That's why Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon is a thing.

[–] philodendron@lemdro.id 1 points 7 hours ago

You’re correct. 3rd-degree connections are friends of friends of your friends

[–] ramble81@lemmy.zip 1 points 10 hours ago

LinkedIn only uses 3 degrees. The theory you’re talking about is that mathematically people should be connected within 6 degrees, but the number of degrees you go with is arbitrary. In LinkedIns case they use them to classify people in one of three categories as it relates to you.