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Of course, there is only so much that Stewart is willing to say, since he was apparently a frequent flier to epstein's pedo island.

For the rest of the news orgs, they now can say 'yeah, look, we admitted it was real' and then move on without ever actually discussing the really, really horrible things that are on that laptop.

They are still hiding the contents after all this time.

I'd also say that the people who had the laptop mishandled the forensic analysis in a serious way. What they should have done is taken an image of that laptop and made it available as an ISO image with posted SHA256sum tags so that any serious researcher could validate anything on the laptop. This is not rocket science folks. The first thing you do, even before you turn the laptop on is to image the drive. Once you have the image, you can make it available to anyone that you want, and they have a guaranteed 'known-good' copy to work from going forward which includes everything, right down to the deleted files, slack space, and everything. Someone with that image could say, "there is a file that was deleted, starting at sector 205900, to 206200, and another researcher could say, "Yup. I see it, looks like a word doc".

If someone thinks they might have an altered image, they can calculate the check sum, and then compare it to the published value. OTOH, if you have an image, and the checksum matches, there is no way to deny it is the same file.