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Kat Tenbarge @ The Verge · today 13:30 EDT

Jeffrey Epstein might not have created /pol/, but he helped carry out its mission

On October 24th, 2011, Jeffrey Epstein was emailing back and forth with Boris Nikolic, a biotech venture capitalist who would later be named as a backup executor of Epstein's will. The two appeared to be discussing a meeting Nikolic had helped arrange between Epstein and "moot," the screen name for Christopher Poole, who created the […]

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