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How a Web Developer Got Into Journalism and Tracked Epstein Island Visitors' Phones
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March 30, 2026
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1:53Now PlayingDhruv Mehrotra 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. Now, Mehrotra is a journalist and technologist at Bloomberg working on investigations like obtaining 18,000 Epstein emails with his elite network. Before that, he worked at WIRED uncovering some of the biggest stories including tracking the phones of every visitor to Epstein island. In today's podcast, Joseph Cox sits down with Mehrotra to talk about his entry into journalism, how computational journalism has changed over the years, and how he uses his background to unveil state secrets.
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