NEW: Jeffery Epstein's emails, obtained by Bloomberg news, shine a freshlight on how the disgraced financier's elite network supported him as investigators closed in. 🎁 LINK: www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

As investigators closed in, elite experts and professionals offered support and advice to Jeffrey Epstein. A cache of private emails obtained by Bloomberg News reveals details from his network. Read the Big Take ⬇️

NEW: Jeffery Epstein's emails, obtained by Bloomberg news, shine a freshlight on how the disgraced financier's elite network supported him as investigators closed in. 🎁 LINK: www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

Want a peak behind the curtain related to our exclusive @business story on Peter Mandelson and Jeffrey Epstein's emails and what happened after @harrynwilson.bsky.social reached out to him? Read this 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Its always tricky to verify historical data sets we receive from sources but after doing a thorough set of tests and checking with experts we felt confident about the data's authenticity. Click in if you want to see our analysis. bsky.app/profile/jaso...

NEW: We got access to Jeffrey Epstein’s personal Yahoo inbox — more than 18,000 emails. It shows Epstein’s world in his own words: an unfiltered look at how his operation worked, who enabled it, and how Ghislaine Maxwell stayed at the center of it all.

EXCLUSIVE/BOMBSHELL: @bloomberg.com has obtained **18K** previously unreported emails from Jeffery Epstein's personal Yahoo account. The emails are disturbing & revelatory & reveal new details about Ghilaine Maxwell's role FREE to read www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

Story by Harry Wilson and me and a dream reporting team: @jeffkao.bsky.social Ava Benny-Morrison @suryamattu.com, Max Abelson and @dmehro.bsky.social

EXCLUSIVE: @bloomberg.com has obtained more than 100 previously undisclosed emails between UK Ambassador Peter Mandelson and Jeffrey Epstein from 2005 through 2010 that reveal Mandelson's steadfast support for Epstein after Epstein was charged with sex crimes 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

NJ Transit is much worse than all other commuter rails in the NYC area. @agordon.me and @suryamattu.com collected and analyzed many weeks of transit feeds to quantify how bad (and it includes angry emojis). www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

An analysis of real-time train data shows its passengers face major service disruptions at six times the rate of riders on other NYC commuter railways.

NJ Transit's official data makes it difficult to tell just how bad it is. So @suryamattu.com and I spent three months collecting the raw location data for more than 190,000 trains on NJT, Metro-North, and LIRR. Then @mariepastora.bsky.social made the graphics to show you. The answer: Very bad.

What happens when government disinvests from public transit? Commutes get longer & more frustrating. A NJ Transit case study from me, @suryamattu.com and @mariepastora.bsky.social : www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

Exciting news from the nerds at Bloomberg bsky.app/profile/dmeh...

They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

NEW: How Elon Musk Muscled His Way Into the FAA FAA employees are on edge. They were told that anyone who impeded progress of the new FAA-SpaceX partnership would be reported to Musk and risked losing their jobs. A ton of scoopy news in this new report. 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

So great to see this come out. At @digitalwitnesslab.org we were shocked by how easy it was to illegally purchase firearms on WhatsApp, the platform isn't even doing the bare minimum it could to prevent this. Heres the story from @restofworld.org bsky.app/profile/rest...

Excited to join @bloomberg.com as a data journalism engineer! I am looking forward to working with the great @jeffykao.bsky.social and the rest of the data desk. Thanks to @princetoncitp.bsky.social for a great run.

This is the first instance (that I know of ) of someone actually finding possible evidence of a stingray in the wild. Great find by @dmehro.bsky.social

This has been sitting in a cupboard since @suryamattu.com and I won it for our Smart Home That Spied on Me story (www.kashmirhill.com/stories/smar...). My mother-in-law finally came up with a use for it. 🎄

wares.lifewinning.com a gentle reminder that I make beautiful pen plotter drawings using geospatial data and vintage graph paper, perhaps someone in your life would enjoy this

Oof, we have a long way to go. Saw this floating around the internet so wanted to try it myself. Screenshot created using Cursor and claude-3.5-sonnet (though it produced the same result with gpt 4o)

NEW: Our WIRED story tracking visitors to Epstein’s island got the video treatment. Feat. @dmehro.bsky.social:

@dmehro.bsky.social will be the reason I end up subscribing to wired bsky.app/profile/dmeh...

New prize from the Brown Institute at Columbia: The Marco Castro Cosio Media Art and Technology Fellowship. brown.columbia.edu/announcing-t...

Apparently the publisher doesn't have print copies anymore? But in 2016 I wrote a field guide to internet infrastructure in New York City like birdwatching for the internet mhpbooks.com/books/networ...

One thing that I miss about X is the Indian tech/tech policy community. Do you know of any starter packs that includes those folks?

New essay in the AI Snake Oil newsletter with Angelina Wang, @sayash.bsky.social and Solon Barocas — we analyze the UK's liver transplant matching algorithm that's been reported to make it nearly impossible for patients under 45 to get a liver. www.aisnakeoil.com/p/does-the-u...

Hello new followers! I mostly use this account to share new work so I thought I would do a quick intro so you know what to expect. Thread 👇🏼 tl;dr – I mostly skeet about privacy, tech policy research and data journalism.

I’m getting a lot of new followers on here even though my engagement has been minimal. If you see this and know why hmu!

If there is anyone who needs help to cast their ballot for Harris-Walz, please raise your hand. I guarantee that I can find people to help you get to the polls, in these states: ME, NH, MA, VT, RI, CT, NY, NJ, PA, DE, MD, VA, NC, GA, FL, OH, MI, IL, WI, IA, MN, MO, OK, KS, TX, CO, UT, AZ, NV or CA.

For decades, I’ve made my work free & open online. Tonight, I’m facing a real financial crunch. If you’ve ever benefitted from insight, information, or connections I shared, I hope you will consider paying that forward, as I work on what’s next: civic-texts.ghost.io#/portal/supp... Thank you.

For my final investigation at The Markup, we looked at how successful PredPol was at predicting crimes. The results were underwhelming. www.wired.com/story/plainf...

WhatsApp is having a Tay moment

I was reminded yesterday of the time me and some friends made a pirate tv station using an SDR and a cantenna and it made me realize just how much I miss RF hacking. Waves >>>>> Data jonathan.is/radio

I wrote an essay for Wired describing the need for a platform-independent transparency framework for our devices. I like to think of it as an Inspectability API. Summary in the thread below but you can also read the full thing here: www.wired.com/story/inspec...

We are thrilled to welcome @kumarsambhav.bsky.social to Digital Witness Lab as our India Research Lead. Based in New Delhi, Sambhav brings us over a decade of experience in research and reporting with a deep understanding of how to conduct data-driven investigations.

The Pixel Hunt series, (the last series I developed and led at The Markup) won National Press Club Consumer Journalism Award! This series really shows the potential of crowdsourced data investigations. https://themarkup.org/inside-the-markup/2023/07/26/the-markup-wins-national-press-club-award

There was a time when @suryamattu.com & I were obsessed w/figuring out the mechanics of Facebook’s People You May Know. As part of an AI transparency initiative Meta now has an explainer that sheds more light https://transparency.fb.com/features/explaining-ranking/fb-people-you-may-know/?referrer=1

Sharing some canvas fingerprints for my first skeet!