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Ronan Farrow
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Pulitzer-winning investigative journo at New Yorker. Documentaries at HBO. Ex-diplomat. Bad lawyer. Disused phd. Tips: ronan_farrow@newyorker.com.
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How Wall Street turns your monthly bills into its debt payments.
#News #Finance #WallStreet #Debt #Infrastructure #politics
November 8, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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The White House just issued a sweeping federal directive transforming how dissent might be policed in the US—here’s why civil liberties groups are so alarmed.
October 24, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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Two days left to vote for Not a Very Good Murderer for favorite Host and favorite True Crime podcast at the Signal Awards! 🗳️ Please support the investigative team behind this labor of love.

Link to vote for Best Host here—let me know when you’ve put yours in:

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October 7, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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The Pentagon is ordering journalists to sign a gag pledge—even with respect to gathering unclassified information. Here are the facts.
#Pentagon #Journalism #FreeSpeech #FirstAmendment #Democracy #BreakingNews #NewsExplained
October 3, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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Not a Very Good Murderer is nominated for 2 Signal Awards! It would mean a lot if you’d vote & support this kind of investigative reporting and the hardworking team behind it.

Vote for Best True Crime Podcast: vote.signalaward.com/PublicVoting...

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The Signal Listener's Choice Award needs YOU
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September 27, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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The far right in America today: a quick primer. #Politics #Democracy
September 26, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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Social media algorithms push rage and division to keep us scrolling. Here’s how the business model works—and the law that allows it to continue. #Algorithms #SocialMedia #Radicalization #PoliticalViolence #TechPolicy #Section230
September 24, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Was the FCC’s pressure to pull Jimmy Kimmel off the air illegal? Here’s what the Constitution and Supreme Court say. #firstamendment #supremecourt #fcc #politics #news #jimmykimmel
September 20, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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Who really profits from America's wars? Check out my new explainer on the defense lobby and tell me your thoughts in the comments. #News #Investigation #USA #War #Gaza
September 17, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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ICE just reactivated its contract with an Israeli firm that makes phone-hacking spyware. Here's what you should know.
#ICE #NewsUS #Hacking #spyware
September 4, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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Trump’s AI plan is here. What's in it, what does it leave out, and what happens to your job?

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #AIPolicy #Jobs #Policy #DigitalEconomy #News #Explained #TechNews #OpenAI #Politics
July 31, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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I got an encrypted email from a prosecutor who told me she was desperately trying to apprehend a serial rapist and encountering obstruction: “I believe there is a possibility that this person is being protected.” Catch up on my latest @newyorker.com investigation: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
July 15, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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What a recent policy reversal by Attorney General Pam Bondi on confidential sources means and why it threatens press freedom—and, in turn, democracy. Through rigorous, fair, and factual reporting, we can make the world more informed. @newyorker.com #journalism #news #US #press #pressfreedom
July 12, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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The Trump administration started laying off more than 1,000 State Department employees today. I wrote a book, War on Peace, that examines the consequences of cuts to State—an agency essential to US security. It speaks to the life-saving work of diplomats:
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War on Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence|Paperback
A New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, and IndieBound bestsellerFinalist for the Colby AwardA new, revised and updated edition of a modern classic of foreign policy, a harrowing exp...
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July 12, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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How do undocumented immigrants actually impact crime and the economy? If we want to design effective, lawful, and fair immigration policies, it helps to start with the facts. #news #politics #immigration #investigativejournalism
July 2, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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I keeping thinking about this Musk profile from 2023, in which national security officials said they were scared AF at how dependent our govt is on him.

"We are living off his good graces,” said a DoD official. “That sucks.”

by @ronanfarrow.bsky.social

www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
In the past twenty years, against a backdrop of crumbling infrastructure and declining trust in institutions, Musk has sought out business opportunities in crucial areas where, after decades of privatization, the state has receded. The government is now reliant on him, but struggles to respond to his risk-taking, brinkmanship, and caprice. Current and former officials from NASA, the Department of Defense, the Department of Transportation, the Federal Aviation Administration, and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration told me that Musk’s influence had become inescapable in their work, and several of them said that they now treat him like a sort of unelected official. One Pentagon spokesman said that he was keeping Musk apprised of my inquiries about his role in Ukraine and would grant an interview with an official about the matter only with Musk’s permission. “We’ll talk to you if Elon wants us to,” he told me. In a podcast interview last year, Musk was asked whether he has more influence than the American government. He replied immediately, “In some ways.”
June 7, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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Your data can be a weapon. A brief explanation, from a reporter who’s investigated privacy and surveillance issues, on @briefingwithpsaki.bsky.social @jenpsaki.msnbc.com.
June 7, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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What can we really learn from the growing body of reporting about Elon Musk’s erraticism? If you want more explainers, find me on TikTok @ theronanfarrow and Instagram @ ronanfarrow :
June 3, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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the inaugural edition of How Bad Is It?, feat. @ronanfarrow.bsky.social

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an excerpt from the "How Bad Is It" section of the New Yorker's daily newsletter (linked in following tweet)
June 3, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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Even before Elon Musk began working with the Trump Administration, his government influence was “brazen and expansive,” @ronanfarrow.bsky.social wrote, in 2023. Revisit his reporting on the U.S.’s growing reliance on the tech billionaire.
Elon Musk’s Shadow Rule
How the U.S. government came to rely on the tech billionaire—and is now struggling to rein him in.
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June 2, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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Harrowing story of police and prosecutorial misconduct that meant dozens of women and several children were raped long after the perp could have been stopped

by @ronanfarrow.bsky.social @newyorker.com

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How Police Let One of America’s Most Prolific Predators Get Away — The New Yorker
When a prosecutor began chasing an accused serial rapist, she lost her job but unravelled a scandal. Why were the police refusing to investigate Sean Williams?
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April 1, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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JD Vance holds a JD from Yale Law (and so do I). Presumably, he knows that he is disregarding the law here, and being deceptive about the protections it affords. (1/6)
April 1, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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An important and devastating piece from the great Ruth Marcus.
March 29, 2025 at 5:50 AM
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The world is a pretty dark place right now but as long as @ronanfarrow.bsky.social is doing his investigative work there is hope. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
How Police Let One of America’s Most Prolific Predators Get Away
When a prosecutor began chasing an accused serial rapist, she lost her job but unravelled a scandal. Why were the police refusing to investigate Sean Williams?
www.newyorker.com
March 27, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Wow.

This story by @ronanfarrow.bsky.social is an extraordinary read.

www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
How Police Let One of America’s Most Prolific Predators Get Away
When a prosecutor began chasing an accused serial rapist, she lost her job but unravelled a scandal. Why were the police refusing to investigate Sean Williams?
www.newyorker.com
March 27, 2025 at 9:07 AM