Ishaan Jhaveri
@ishaan-jhavs.bsky.social
Deriving structure from amorphous data and finding needles in haystacks at @nytimes.com Visual Investigations. Muzafir from Mumbai
email: ishaan.jhaveri@nytimes.com
signal: jhaveri.01
email: ishaan.jhaveri@nytimes.com
signal: jhaveri.01
Truth Social: x.com/ishaan_jhavs...
Ishaan Jhaveri on X: "NEW: Our analysis of each of Donald Trump’s 5,641 Truth Social posts from March 12 to Sept. 12 revealed that he promoted false conspiracy theories almost twice a day on average [gift link below] https://t.co/ighqUj5XRF" / X
NEW: Our analysis of each of Donald Trump’s 5,641 Truth Social posts from March 12 to Sept. 12 revealed that he promoted false conspiracy theories almost twice a day on average [gift link below] https://t.co/ighqUj5XRF
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November 25, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Truth Social: x.com/ishaan_jhavs...
Tyre Nichols: x.com/ishaan_jhavs...
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November 25, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Tyre Nichols: x.com/ishaan_jhavs...
Iran Protests: x.com/ishaan_jhavs...
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November 25, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Iran Protests: x.com/ishaan_jhavs...
Jack Teixeira/Thug Shaker Central: x.com/ishaan_jhavs...
Ishaan Jhaveri on X: "OSINT 🧵: A method @AricToler, @riley_mellen, I and others used to find sources in our recent coverage of Jack Teixeira (JT). This piece didn't quote members of Thug Shaker Central (TCS), because it focused on JTs posts on another Discord server, but... https://t.co/cKyBDm1fEN" / X
OSINT 🧵: A method @AricToler, @riley_mellen, I and others used to find sources in our recent coverage of Jack Teixeira (JT). This piece didn't quote members of Thug Shaker Central (TCS), because it focused on JTs posts on another Discord server, but... https://t.co/cKyBDm1fEN
x.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Jack Teixeira/Thug Shaker Central: x.com/ishaan_jhavs...
China Protests: x.com/ishaan_jhavs...
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November 25, 2025 at 8:00 PM
China Protests: x.com/ishaan_jhavs...
China Balloon: x.com/ishaan_jhavs...
Ishaan Jhaveri on X: "NEW: We worked with the artificial intelligence company Synthetaic to detect and analyze the Chinese balloon in satellite imagery. This allowed us to track the movement of the balloon itself, not just its expected path based on weather projections https://t.co/fPWgTndjxO" / X
NEW: We worked with the artificial intelligence company Synthetaic to detect and analyze the Chinese balloon in satellite imagery. This allowed us to track the movement of the balloon itself, not just its expected path based on weather projections https://t.co/fPWgTndjxO
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November 25, 2025 at 8:00 PM
China Balloon: x.com/ishaan_jhavs...
Gaza: x.com/ishaan_jhavs...
Ishaan Jhaveri on X: "When a 2,000-pound bomb detonates, it creates a blastwave that can harm people up to 3,000 feet away. Our Visual Investigation suggests Israel routinely dropped this bomb in the area south of Wadi Gaza - the place it had repeatedly told civilians in Gaza to move to for safety." / X
When a 2,000-pound bomb detonates, it creates a blastwave that can harm people up to 3,000 feet away. Our Visual Investigation suggests Israel routinely dropped this bomb in the area south of Wadi Gaza - the place it had repeatedly told civilians in Gaza to move to for safety.
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November 25, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Gaza: x.com/ishaan_jhavs...
Here are links to some of the work I'm proudest of producing or supporting in this job:
Bucha: x.com/ishaan_jhavs...
Bucha: x.com/ishaan_jhavs...
Ishaan Jhaveri on X: "The 234th Air Assault regiment of Russia's military committed grievous atrocities, amounting to potential war crimes along one street in Bucha, near Kyiv in Ukraine. My colleagues and I uncovered this using phone logs, military files and 23TB of video https://t.co/2dwc4hXsas" / X
The 234th Air Assault regiment of Russia's military committed grievous atrocities, amounting to potential war crimes along one street in Bucha, near Kyiv in Ukraine. My colleagues and I uncovered this using phone logs, military files and 23TB of video https://t.co/2dwc4hXsas
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November 25, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Here are links to some of the work I'm proudest of producing or supporting in this job:
Bucha: x.com/ishaan_jhavs...
Bucha: x.com/ishaan_jhavs...
@neilbedi.bsky.social, @rileymellen.bsky.social, Robin Stein, @sanjanamv.bsky.social, @muyixiao.bsky.social, @evanhill.bsky.social and others again! Everything on VI is a mammoth team effort so I couldn't have done any of this work without these and other colleagues.
November 25, 2025 at 8:00 PM
@neilbedi.bsky.social, @rileymellen.bsky.social, Robin Stein, @sanjanamv.bsky.social, @muyixiao.bsky.social, @evanhill.bsky.social and others again! Everything on VI is a mammoth team effort so I couldn't have done any of this work without these and other colleagues.
The industry is small and life is long so I hope I get to work with the inimitable @ajcardia.bsky.social, @aric.bsky.social, @trbrtc.bsky.social, @ckoettl.bsky.social, Courtney Brooks, @devonlum.bsky.social, @dimakhavin.bsky.social, Haley Willis, Natalie Reneau,
November 25, 2025 at 8:00 PM
The industry is small and life is long so I hope I get to work with the inimitable @ajcardia.bsky.social, @aric.bsky.social, @trbrtc.bsky.social, @ckoettl.bsky.social, Courtney Brooks, @devonlum.bsky.social, @dimakhavin.bsky.social, Haley Willis, Natalie Reneau,
I’m taking the rest of the year off and then moving to London in the new year to figure it out!
November 25, 2025 at 8:00 PM
I’m taking the rest of the year off and then moving to London in the new year to figure it out!
The burgeoning world of AI today gives journalists the ability to investigate stories we couldn’t before, even as it renders our already-stretched-to-breaking information ecosystem more fragile. I want to continue to think deeply about both of these things in my next chapter.
November 25, 2025 at 8:00 PM
The burgeoning world of AI today gives journalists the ability to investigate stories we couldn’t before, even as it renders our already-stretched-to-breaking information ecosystem more fragile. I want to continue to think deeply about both of these things in my next chapter.
My first stop on the way is probably London (thankfully I already have work authorization there), where I’ll be looking to use similar methods (as a staff reporter or freelance) while also hopefully visiting India more regularly to cultivate sources and seek out stories.
November 25, 2025 at 8:00 PM
My first stop on the way is probably London (thankfully I already have work authorization there), where I’ll be looking to use similar methods (as a staff reporter or freelance) while also hopefully visiting India more regularly to cultivate sources and seek out stories.
I leave deeply grateful to everyone on VI and the Times who I learnt so much about journalism from. I'm leaving to be closer to India in all ways - family, friends, the stories I want to cover, the audience I want to reach.
November 25, 2025 at 8:00 PM
I leave deeply grateful to everyone on VI and the Times who I learnt so much about journalism from. I'm leaving to be closer to India in all ways - family, friends, the stories I want to cover, the audience I want to reach.
I also got to work on stories that came not from computational methods but from close analysis of footage, and a sense of where to look for open-source information, a skill I learnt and honed at this job. I’m linking some of my work while at this job at the end of this thread.
November 25, 2025 at 8:00 PM
I also got to work on stories that came not from computational methods but from close analysis of footage, and a sense of where to look for open-source information, a skill I learnt and honed at this job. I’m linking some of my work while at this job at the end of this thread.
For example, building a dataset of photos of ships scraped from shipspotters’ Instagram accounts and then searching this dataset using reference photos of ships of interest to see if they are in it.
November 25, 2025 at 8:00 PM
For example, building a dataset of photos of ships scraped from shipspotters’ Instagram accounts and then searching this dataset using reference photos of ships of interest to see if they are in it.
VI empowered me to experiment with open-source damage detection models, build pipelines to make sense of datasets containing tens of thousands of videos, and use open-source image embedding models that enable reverse-image search in large datasets.
November 25, 2025 at 8:00 PM
VI empowered me to experiment with open-source damage detection models, build pipelines to make sense of datasets containing tens of thousands of videos, and use open-source image embedding models that enable reverse-image search in large datasets.
And used it to investigate Israel’s use of 2,000-pound in an area of Gaza designated safe for civilians. For this work I shared in the Times’ 2024 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting and an OPC, Polk and NPPA award.
November 25, 2025 at 8:00 PM
And used it to investigate Israel’s use of 2,000-pound in an area of Gaza designated safe for civilians. For this work I shared in the Times’ 2024 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting and an OPC, Polk and NPPA award.
Used network analysis to identify members of the notorious Thug Shaker Central Discord group, and, my proudest achievement at The Times, built an object detection model for craters left by 2,000-pound bombs
November 25, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Used network analysis to identify members of the notorious Thug Shaker Central Discord group, and, my proudest achievement at The Times, built an object detection model for craters left by 2,000-pound bombs
And so, between then and now, among other nerdy things I’ve reverse-engineered undocumented APIs on Russian social media websites to investigate Russian soldiers, used object detection and trigonometry to report on the Chinese balloon that (likely errantly) entered US airspace,
November 25, 2025 at 8:00 PM
And so, between then and now, among other nerdy things I’ve reverse-engineered undocumented APIs on Russian social media websites to investigate Russian soldiers, used object detection and trigonometry to report on the Chinese balloon that (likely errantly) entered US airspace,
@malachy.bsky.social, @bottid.bsky.social, Whitney Hurst, @markscheffler.bsky.social, and my terrific colleagues took a chance on me and my instinct that there was scope for deep, cutting-edge computational methods in the world of open-source investigations.
November 25, 2025 at 8:00 PM
@malachy.bsky.social, @bottid.bsky.social, Whitney Hurst, @markscheffler.bsky.social, and my terrific colleagues took a chance on me and my instinct that there was scope for deep, cutting-edge computational methods in the world of open-source investigations.
I came to VI in 2022, a computer scientist with some research and journalistic experience, but hardly daring to call myself a real life journalist.
November 25, 2025 at 8:00 PM
I came to VI in 2022, a computer scientist with some research and journalistic experience, but hardly daring to call myself a real life journalist.