Does anyone know why was the article"Jeffrey Epstein Reportedly Had a Major Hand in Making Call of Duty Series a Microtransaction Hell" from fandomwire and other articles about this was taken down? (fandomwire.com)

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Did they remove it due to internal or external pressure?

Other pages referring to this story got taken down also: https://www.escapistmagazine.com/news-call-of-duty-jeffrey-epstein-microtransactions/

https://news.instant-gaming.com/en/articles/17608-bobby-kotick-had-discussed-microtransactions-in-call-of-duty-with-jeffrey-epstein

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[-] Pamasich@kbin.earth 6 points 1 day ago

So I tried looking through jmail for "kotick", "call of duty", and "microtransaction" and couldn't find it. Neither in the official library (haven't checked call of duty there though, too many results). Do we know that this is actually real? Maybe the articles got removed because it turned out to be fake?

[-] Beep@lemmus.org 5 points 1 day ago

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2010/EFTA01762201.pdf

[-] northernlights@lemmy.today 1 points 2 minutes ago

i'm amazed how these rulers of the world can't fucking write an email

[-] Pamasich@kbin.earth 1 points 1 day ago

That's just an email TO Epstein.

[-] Beep@lemmus.org 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Look at the quoted email, starts from "Jeffrey Epstein wrote"

The emails were allegedly from Epstein advisors.

[-] Corngood@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago

That part is JE quoting something Kotick said. That's why the other person is responding to JE and mocking him for it.

[-] Beep@lemmus.org 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

To add more context, this was the original source of the discovery:

https://x.com/charlieINTEL/status/2017787881037664751

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