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In the chaos of everything I totally missed this happening last week, but seems like kind of a big deal.
How is it a big deal? We know that it's not real, that it wasn't claimed to be real by its creators, and that the FBI has it because it was emailed to them by someone with an innocent question about it. I can see either including it in the release because it's technically in the FBI's Epstein file, or omitting it from the release because it actually isn't relevant information. It looks like the FBI chose the latter policy once they became aware that they had released the video (presumably as part of a bulk upload) and they Streisand-Effected themselves by removing it. I'm not familiar with the specific text of the law so I don't know which option is more in accordance with it, but either way I don't see any substantive issue at all.
The DOJ shouldn't be posting anything (especially regarding this case) without first verifying the authenticity of the contents of the post. It's a big deal because their quality control is optically terrible, and that's a very bad look for what's supposed to be the top of the justice ladder.
It's not an authentic video of Epstein, but it is an authentic part of their file on Epstein. You seem to be saying that they should not have posted it but my understanding of the law is that they should have posted it and not removed it.
It's fake, they shouldn't post it at all.
You want to give the FBI a lot more power to choose, unilaterally and without oversight, which parts of the Epstein files to keep from the public than I do.
It wasn't part of any files, it was fucking fake.
It was both in the files and fucking fake.
Edit: it has since been removed
If I'm wrong please let me know.