• Dearth@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    While this is alarming, it seems like such an obvious attempt to distract us from the people in Texas who died from the Republican party’s inaction. As well as the revelation that the Epstein suicide video was edited

      • Boddhisatva@lemmy.world
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        10 hours ago

        I’m a couple days late, but yeah, it was pretty clearly edited based on the metadata.

        Working with two independent video forensics experts, WIRED examined the 21-gigabyte files released by the DOJ. Using a metadata tool, reporters analyzed both Exchangeable Image File Format (EXIF) and Extensible Metadata Platform (XMP) data to identify signs of postprocessing.

        The “raw” file shows clear signs of having been processed using an Adobe product, most likely Premiere, based on metadata that specifically references file extensions used by the video editing software. According to experts, Adobe software, including Premiere and Photoshop, leaves traces in exported files, often embedding metadata that logs which assets were used and what actions were taken during editing. In this case, the metadata indicates the file was saved at least four times over a 23-minute span on May 23, 2025, by a Windows user account called “MJCOLE~1.” The metadata does not show whether the footage was modified before each time it was saved.

        The embedded data suggest the video is not a continuous, unaltered export from a surveillance system, but a composite assembled from at least two separate MP4 files. The metadata includes references to Premiere project files and two specific source clips—2025-05-22 21-12-48.mp4 and 2025-05-22 16-35-21.mp4. These entries appear under a metadata section labeled “Ingredients,” part of Adobe’s internal schema for tracking source material used in edited exports. The metadata does not make clear where in the video the two clips were spliced together.

        Further investigation suggests that almost three minutes of the video could be missing though the authors concede that the missing minutes may have been overlap between the two files that were stitched together.

    • OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca
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      4 days ago

      If it’s a legitimate threat, it’s not a distraction. It’s called “flooding the zone” and it’s intentional, but it’s mean to overwhelm us in general with the sheer amount of bullshit he spews.

      But don’t make the mistake that this is a distraction. He’s opening a path to strip anyone he dislikes of citizenship and exile them to a foreign death camp. This is deadly serious and should not be ignored.