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A few years ago, the "tinfoil hat crowd" had this absurd claim that Ghislaine Maxwell was a reddit powermod:

https://www.vice.com/en/article/incoherent-conspiracy-sugges...

The article above is from 2020, and later the FBI itself used the user maxwellhill as evidence in Ghislaine's investigation:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Epstein/comments/1qsf6y6/reddit_pos...

This is almost certainly because a member of the public phoned the police/FBI and alleged that GM was /u/maxwellhill, not that it was part of the FBI’s case. Look at the other stuff on the list.

I don’t know if the claim is “absurd” but it appears to be essentially baseless.

The Overton Window shifts,

no matter what the “we always believed and knew” crowd tries to say.