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News of the Aix-Marseilles University report, dated January 2023, became public only this month in the French newspaper L’Express after a data sleuth asked a government agency to support its release.

Elisabeth Bik, a leading forensic image sleuth, also identified many of the problems in Cassava’s studies—and was relentlessly attacked by boosters of the company on social media.

But the piecemeal allegations leveled in the criminal and civil cases stopped short of answering an essential question that’s been hinted at by attorneys, investigators and internet sleuths: Who else was involved?

After his initial sleuthing, Mr Cleary contacted biographer Paul Murray - who confirmed there had been no trace of the story for over a century.

My son is a private citizen, but the unusual and violent reaction to his autistic spelling shows similar confluences of eager internet sleuths ready to treat a seven-second clip as a Zapruder film.