The Journalist Who Tracked Epstein Island Visitors’ Phones

This week Joseph talks to Dhruv Mehrotra, a journalist and technologist at Bloomberg. Before that, Dhruv was at WIRED, where you probably saw a ton of his interesting work. Dhruv sits in a very unusual space in journalism: he is able to both write technical tools to dig through data, or collect information, or really anything else, and is also able to just write a damn good story. That is a very unique blend. The pair chat about Dhruv’s entry into journalism, how computational journalism has changed over the years, and how Dhruv uses AI too.

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Jeffrey Epstein’s Island Visitors Exposed by Data Broker (wired.com/story/jeffrey-epstein-island-visitor…)

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‘They're Not Breathing’: Inside the Chaos of ICE Detention Center 911 Calls (wired.com/story/ice-detention-center-911-emerg…)

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Epstein’s Inbox (bloomberg.com/features/2025-jeffrey-epstein-em…)

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