By Matt Novak
Publication Date: 2026-02-09 21:15:00
The Epstein files are filled with emails containing plenty of news articles. So it’s not a huge surprise that the word Gizmodo shows up 35 times in a search of the U.S. Department of Justice’s repository of documents about the late sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. But one email about a Gizmodo article really caught our eye.
Searching through the files, sometimes Gizmodo appears in news round-ups for services like the dead social media site Google+, while other times people sent Epstein specific articles that may have been of interest. In the case of the latter, one article jumped out to us, and we’re really curious why the name of the person who sent that article to Epstein is redacted.
On April 21, 2015, someone sent Epstein an email that included a link to Gizmodo’s article titled “Now You Can Download Your Google History—Or Better Yet, Delete It.” The person who sent the email has had their name redacted, which suggests that it could be a victim….
