Is a video that shows Jeffrey Epstein kissing a young woman authentic? No, that's not true: A detection tool flagged the video as likely AI-generated. There are several AI glitches that can be seen in the video.
The claim appeared in a video posted on X on April 8, 2026, by the account @Unfiltered_Q (archived here). It opened:
Epstein File 172/1000
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This is what the video included on the post made on X looked like at the time of writing:
(Image source: post by @Unfiltered_Q on X.com.)
This is another screenshot from the video:
(Image source: post by @Unfiltered_Q on X.com.)
On April 9, 2026, The Hive Moderation AI-Generated Content Detection tool concluded the video was 93.1% "likely to be AI-generated":
(Image source: Hive Moderation.)
Visual clues indicate that the video is AI-generated, and are highlighted in the screenshots below. Besides its obvious low quality, the video's glaring issue is that the date and time stamp in the video warp, as these screenshots show (red circle added by Lead Stories):
(Image source: post by @Unfiltered_Q on X.com.)
(Image source: post by @Unfiltered_Q on X.com.)
Had the Department of Justice released a video from the Epstein files of him kissing a young woman and holding her hand, it would have been reported by legitimate news sources. Lead Stories searched Google News (archived here) and Yahoo! News (archived here) and did not find any matching results. Reverse Image searches of a video screenshot using Google Images and TinEye (archived here), returned other social media posts but did not provide any credible evidence that the event depicted in the video actually happened.
Here is a screenshot of the Google Images search results:
(Image source: Google.)
Here is a screenshot of the search results on Tineye:
(Image source: TinEye.com.)
