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The role of media and selective evidence
The headline you supplied β about an accountantβs testimony regarding Jeffrey Epsteinβs finances β illustrates how fragmentary evidence can be repurposed. βNever saw payments to Trumpβ is a narrow, factual claim about one witnessβs knowledge, but in partisan debate such facts are often turned into absolutes or into evidence that a wider conspiracy is false or true. Visual posts operate similarly: they present a stark binary and imply evidentiary closure where none exists. Responsible journalism layers testimony with corroboration, context, and caveats. Image-driven claims rarely do; instead they invite viewers to treat frames as full stories.