British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell faces decades in prison after being convicted on Wednesday of grooming underage girls for deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and his cohorts to abuse.
Yet despite the ruling, which saw Maxwell convicted of five of the six counts against her, conspiracy theorists immediately began spreading claims that the case had been nefarious in nature.
Jack Posobiec, a popular far-right conspiracy theorist, responded to the verdict by alleging that all information regarding the sex trafficking case would be hidden from the public.
“Ghislaine Maxwell has been found guilty,” he tweeted. “All details of Epstein’s Network ordered sealed.”
The tweet quickly went viral, racking up thousands of shares from Posobiec’s more than 1.5 million Twitter followers.
As is often the case, Posobiec did not provide any evidence to back up the claim. That didn’t stop other far-right figures from sharing the tweet uncritically.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) likewise amplified the allegation in a tweet in which she criticized the government committee currently investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
“Jeffrey Epstein’s entire network should be made public and his fortune should go to his victims,” she tweeted. “If the fake J6 committee can subpoena innocent people’s cell phone data and bank records then Jeffrey Epstein’s whole network should be publicized.”
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