“I didn’t think I was doing groundbreaking journalism. It was just homework.”
Ben Mueller spent five hours in the DOJ’s public Epstein document portal and made an Instagram carousel listing which Marin County towns turned up. It ran on his high school paper’s feed and cleared 4,000 likes. Everything in it was already public and already searchable by anyone. The adults came after a student paper anyway, which tells you the objection was never accuracy. It was that a 17 year old read the file and posted the town names.