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Whitney Webb: Epstein 2.0 is Technology Surveillance

Source: Before Skool - "Who Took Over Epstein's Empire? - Whitney Webb"
Date: 2025-07-17
Author: Whitney Webb (Investigative Journalist, Author of "One Nation Under Blackmail")

Core Thesis: Epstein 2.0 is Software, Not a Person​

"I think Epstein 2.0 isn't a person it's software it's online surveillance"

Whitney Webb presents a compelling argument that the traditional model of sexual blackmail pioneered by Jeffrey Epstein has evolved into something far more sophisticated and pervasive: technological surveillance.

The Evolution from Sexual to Digital Blackmail​

Why Technology is More Effective​

"once sort of the internet and Technology came to dominate uh you know our lives in the post 2000s era it's not really necessary to have someone doing sexual blackmail the way that Epstein did it it actually is much less risky for them because they don't have to pay to help maintain someone's billionaire playboy lifestyle or you know maintain the data obtained from sexual blackmail parties"

The shift represents a fundamental change in intelligence operations:

  • Lower overhead costs - No need to maintain expensive lifestyles or facilities
  • Reduced risk - No physical evidence or witnesses to manage
  • Greater scope - Can monitor millions simultaneously rather than targeting individuals

The Profiling Revolution​

"if you're doing it covertly through software you not you not only know uh what everyone is looking and doing online who they're communicating to what they're saying uh and if you know they have sexual uh deviances for example that's very easy to find online for certain people these days"

Webb argues this connects to post-9/11 surveillance architecture:

"this warrantless spying in the post 911 era has been about it's about profiling Americans uh for this basically uh this Vision that was developed in the bush era but is coming to fruition now"

Epstein's Silicon Valley Connections: The Foundation for Tech Surveillance​

Key Relationships Established in the Late 1990s​

"starting in the late 1990s really 99 or so uh they started to court very heavily uh people who would become the dominant Silicon Valley oligarchs of today"

Jeff Bezos:

"Jeff Bezos had a very intimate relationship uh with gal Maxwell"

Google Founders:

"the Google co-founders particularly Sergey Bren very cozy with abstein both Google co-founders were subpoenad as part of that US Virgin Islands Epstein JP Morgan trial"

Bill Gates & Microsoft:

"Bill Gates who ties to Epstein despite mainstream media's claims go back to the 199 90s not to 2011 as they claim I would argue that's because they're trying to Absol Microsoft of any potential compromise"

The Microsoft connection is particularly significant:

"given that Microsoft is essentially ubiquitous globally and is the operating system on every computer the fact you would have someone like that involved with them is pretty significant"

The True Nature of Epstein: Financial Criminal, Not Just Sex Trafficker​

Reframing the Epstein Operation​

"if you look at Epstein um he was uh not mainly a sex black mailer he was mainly as for lack of a better word of financial criminal that facilitated Financial crimes of very very wealthy people and also of intelligence services"

Economic Manipulation:

"had you know an A Pretty Outside role in the collapse of Bear Sterns for example which helped uh bring on the 2008 economic crash"

Currency Speculation:

"Bill Clinton wanted to meet with him in 1995 to discuss currency stabilization after the Mexican peso was essentially shorted by people like George Soros and Joe Lewis"

The Intelligence-Organized Crime Fusion​

Historical Evolution​

"Jeffrey Epstein is part of this uh blob I'd call it that's really a a a fusion of organized crime in our intelligence Services uh which is a union that really began in the World War II era"

"essentially the CIA you know take over for the mob and that's why the the CIA sort of you know the mob disappears and the CIA starts running all of what had previously been mob rackets like arms trafficking and drug trafficking human trafficking"

Corporate Intelligence Complex​

"it's really always been kind of this public private partnership and I would argue that organized crime uh came to dominate a lot of the American corporate landscape"

"a lot of these figures that really should be seen as Mobsters have managed to Rebrand themselves as philanthropists"

Technology Companies as Intelligence Assets​

Direct CIA Involvement​

Oracle:

"Larry Ellison and before he created Oracle he was working on Project Oracle at the CIA and and turned it into a company that became a major contractor for the CIA"

Palantir:

"they were funded uh first by you know its co-founder Peter teal but also by The cia's Venture Capital firm inel the CIA was their only client for their first three to four years maybe longer"

"it's really the closest thing you can really see as a CIA front company essentially"

Facebook:

"Facebook was a repurposing of the stara program called LIF log uh because of the people involved with it early on um how it essentially mirrors lifelog exactly"

The Surveillance Infrastructure​

"if you have all these tech companies and the person you want to Blackmail uses Google uses Oracle uses Microsoft or whatever it's not very hard to be able to access all of their uh information"

"it's been something that's been going on on a massive scale um since the 1980s at least maybe earlier but we can definitely pinpoint key examples of it happening in the in the 80s and afterward"

Key Implications​

  1. The Epstein model has evolved from physical compromise to digital omnipresence
  2. Major tech platforms were designed with intelligence community involvement from their inception
  3. The focus on sexual crimes may be deliberately obscuring broader financial and intelligence operations
  4. Traditional organized crime has evolved into sophisticated public-private intelligence partnerships
  5. Digital surveillance provides unprecedented leverage over individuals and institutions

Strategic Insight​

Webb's analysis suggests that while public attention remains focused on Epstein's sex trafficking, the real story is the evolution of intelligence operations into the digital realm, where the same objectives of compromise and control are achieved through ubiquitous technological surveillance rather than traditional blackmail operations.

The implication is that everyone using major technology platforms is potentially subject to the same type of intelligence gathering and leverage that was previously reserved for high-value targets at exclusive parties.