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The Lever’s daily email newsletter.🔥 Today’s Lever Time episode: Journalist Julie K. Brown broke open the cover-up of Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking scheme — and she says the government is still hiding the truth.
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- The Epstein investigator that Trump just fired.
- A loyalty questionnaire now included in federal job applications.
- The “bossware” making your life worse.
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TODAY'S NUGGETS
🤫 Zuck buys silence days before testimony. Just days into a civil trial where leaders at Meta were set to deliver blockbuster testimony over Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica user privacy scandal, the company settled this morning. Meta’s shareholders sued the firm for $8 billion, alleging that Meta knowingly violated federal privacy laws and later bailed itself out by paying hefty settlements, which shareholders now want to be compensated for.
