Flying Low: Data, Dictators, and Private Planes

If there’s one thing dictators and autocrats hate, it’s transparency. If they got it their way, they’d step onto private jets and vanish from all oversight. Luckily, people like Emmanuel Freudenthal are paying attention – even at 30,000 feet. This week on Whale Hunting, Bradley Hope is joined by Emmanuel, an investigative journalist and a director at Dictator Alert, a project that aims to illuminate the shadowy dealings of dictators and autocrats by tracking their private jets. Together, they discuss what can be gained from following the ultrawealthy across the skies – and what more privacy-conscious crooks are doing to stay out of sight. 

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