I mean, I don't know the details, could be. I wouldn't immediately assume anyone who had an interaction with Epstein was a pedo though, the scheme he was running seems to revolve around luring influential people into compromising positions to blackmail them. The people I would worry about most are the ones who had repeated interactions. All that said, Chomsky should be treated with a grain of salt, I appreciate some of his contributions and can say his work was a stepping stone for my personal progression into anarcho capitalism, but he's also economically ilitterate. The five filters of mass media and manufactured consent are a pretty cohesive analysis of the modern media/government.