Epstein and the Dalai Lama: a case study in lies and social media toxicity
| Tibet & Tibetan Buddhist archive | Abstract : On 30 January 2026 the Epstein Files were released by the United States Department of Justice. Despite being heavily redacted, the more than 3.5 million pages of mostly email correspondence and flight logs revealed the true horror of Jeffrey Epstein's activities. Within this large cache of recorded, a preliminary DOJ index noted that His Holiness the Dalai Lama was mentioned 169 times, primarily within ten items of correspondence. Following an obviously superficial analysis of this material, less than a week later - on 5 January 2026 - social media podcaster DrWeberSpeaks posted the interpreted falsehood that the Dalai Lama therefore " ...visited Epstein on his island 159 times. " This was a lie, and a gross distortion of the information available within the Epstein Files. It clearly reveals the dangerous, toxic nature of social media in the current era, unrestrained by the norms of research and reporting upon ...