Why are there "=" symbols all over the Epstein emails?

https://lemmy.world/post/43494427

Why are there "=" symbols all over the Epstein emails? - Lemmy.World

Lemmy

Saw someone who’s a web developer explain it. It’s an error from the department tasked with transcribing/archiving them. Something about a line-break being misread and replacing characters when it shouldn’t. Kind of like when you see “&amp&” and junk like that.
Yeah I’m pretty sure they are OCR (computer scanning physical documents into digital text) errors where e.g. a letter “E” might be incorrectly read as “=”