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Ronan Farrow @ronanfarrow.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

(1/5) Pentagon leadership has said that by the end of this month, Palantir's Maven artificial intelligence system will become a line item with stable, long-term funding in the defense budget (a "program of record"). #News #Palantir #AI

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Ronan Farrow @ronanfarrow.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Georgia audited its own data center tax breaks and found that the state gave up $474 million in sales taxes in one year—and got back just $41 million from the industry. At least 38 states have deals like this. #AI #News #US

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Ronan Farrow @ronanfarrow.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Nearly 10M American kids live below the poverty line. There is a proven fix—the expanded Child Tax Credit, which in 2021 helped cut child poverty nearly in half. But Congress let the expansion expire, and the bill to bring it back has been stalled. #Affordability #CostOfLiving #News #Politics

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Ronan Farrow @ronanfarrow.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Private equity is buying America's hospitals and nursing homes. The playbook: pile on debt, sell the building, cut staff. The result, one landmark study found: patient deaths up about 11%. #news #information #privateequity

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Ronan Farrow @ronanfarrow.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

The government has a formula that decides whether safety rules are worth passing. And that formula was rewritten to put a new price on your life: zero dollars. #PublicHealth #EPA #News #Trump #climatechange

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Ronan Farrow @ronanfarrow.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Tonight, June 10th, at Tribeca Festival. Join me for a sneak preview of my next two HBO investigative series: The Palladino Files and Not a Very Good Murderer, back-to-back. I’ll be there to take your questions after. Would love to see you there. A few tickets left: tribecafilm.com/films/not-a-...

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Ronan Farrow @ronanfarrow.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

(🧵1/14) When OpenAI board members hired the law firm WilmerHale to investigate Sam Altman's firing over two years ago, many executives at the company expected to see extensive findings. Instead, OpenAI released a brief announcement with few details.

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Ronan Farrow @ronanfarrow.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Jeff Bezos bought the Washington Post offering “financial runway." This month it gutted its newsroom—more than 300 layoffs. Whatever you think of legacy news, the hard data shows us that newspaper closures hurt Americans. Here's how: 🧵

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Ronan Farrow @ronanfarrow.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

(1/11) If you live in NY, you’ve probably started seeing a new warning: “THIS PRICE WAS SET BY AN ALGORITHM USING YOUR PERSONAL DATA.” This mandatory disclosure went into effect late last year, and it’s the first attempt by a US state to grapple with a new generation of surveillance pricing.

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Ronan Farrow @ronanfarrow.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

For nearly a year, the administration has said that DOGE had no unauthorized access to your Social Security data. A new government filing admits that was false.

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Ronan Farrow @ronanfarrow.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

(1/17 🧵) Here's my further analysis of the recent journalist arrests, for those not inclined to hunt down my posts elsewhere. While this is a political flash point, I do not believe it is a partisan issue. It is part of a pattern perpetrated by, and that hurts, both parties:

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Ronan Farrow @ronanfarrow.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Don Lemon and Georgia Fort have been released. But the procedural history now emerging is unusual. Before the arrests, a federal magistrate judge found no probable cause to arrest them. The government appealed anyway. Here’s why that matters—and what it signals more broadly.

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Ronan Farrow @ronanfarrow.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

On December 30, a federal judge ordered the administration to continue funding the CFPB, blocking its attempt to starve the consumer watchdog of cash. The legal fight over the agency’s future is ongoing—and could reshape consumer protections nationwide.

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Ronan Farrow @ronanfarrow.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Seven years after the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, the world is being asked to forget what happens when governments decide reporters are disposable—and to turn away from what that precedent means for all of us.

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Ronan Farrow @ronanfarrow.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Someone is buying up American starter homes and pricing you out. But it’s not who you’ve been told. #EconSky #Housing #PolSky #RonanFarrow

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Ronan Farrow @ronanfarrow.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

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.

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Ronan Farrow @ronanfarrow.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

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: vote.signalaward.com/PublicVoting...

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I just voted for this finalist to win a Signal Listener's Choice Award. You should too.

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Ronan Farrow @ronanfarrow.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

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

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Ronan Farrow @ronanfarrow.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

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... and Best Host: vote.signalaward.com/PublicVoting...

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The Signal Listener's Choice Award needs YOU

I just voted for this finalist to win a Signal Listener's Choice Award. You should too.

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Ronan Farrow @ronanfarrow.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

The far right in America today: a quick primer. #Politics #Democracy

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Ronan Farrow @ronanfarrow.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

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

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Ronan Farrow @ronanfarrow.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

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

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Ronan Farrow @ronanfarrow.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

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

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Ronan Farrow @ronanfarrow.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

ICE just reactivated its contract with an Israeli firm that makes phone-hacking spyware. Here's what you should know. #ICE #NewsUS #Hacking #spyware

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Ronan Farrow @ronanfarrow.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

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

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Ronan Farrow @ronanfarrow.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

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...

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Ronan Farrow @ronanfarrow.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

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

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Ronan Farrow @ronanfarrow.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

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: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/war-on-pea...

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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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Ronan Farrow @ronanfarrow.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

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

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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

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.”

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Ronan Farrow @ronanfarrow.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

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.

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Ronan Farrow @ronanfarrow.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

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 :

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Caroline Mimbs Nyce @mimbs.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

the inaugural edition of How Bad Is It?, feat. @ronanfarrow.bsky.social subscribe to get these in your inbox: www.newyorker.com/newsletter/d...

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 02/06/2025

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.

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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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Ronan Farrow @ronanfarrow.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

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)

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Ronan Farrow @ronanfarrow.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

An important and devastating piece from the great Ruth Marcus.

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ScarlettSong @scarlettsong.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Good tread and good article

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Ronan Farrow @ronanfarrow.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

My new @newyorker.com story, a 4-year investigation into a whistleblower’s claims that police shielded a predator, underscores the real-world stakes of Trump's cuts. Corruption oversight and whistleblower protection, already inadequate, are newly imperiled. (1/7) www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

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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?

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Ronan Farrow @ronanfarrow.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Have you checked out my latest in The New Yorker? Why were the police refusing to investigate Sean Williams? Read here: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

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Ronan Farrow @ronanfarrow.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

In 2021, I got an encrypted email from a federal prosecutor who was chasing a predator and feared police were shielding him. For 4 years, I looked at whether corruption allowed one of the most prolific rapists in history to get away. Bizarre and wrenching to report: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

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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?

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Ronan Farrow @ronanfarrow.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Have you listened to #NotAVeryGoodMurderer yet? Out now on Audible: www.audible.com/pd/Not-a-Ver...

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Ronan Farrow @ronanfarrow.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

My new #podcast, #NotAVeryGoodMurderer, is out now on Audible: www.audible.com/navgm I set out to vet an incendiary allegation from an eccentric pageant queen with a tangled past, and stumble into a string of unsolved crimes—a jewel heist, a suspicious fire, stalking, even serial attempted murder.

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Sylvia V. Hillman @sylviavhillman.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Looking forward to pressing ▶️!

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Ronan Farrow @ronanfarrow.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

It’s the podcast series I’ve been on for five years, since the Catch and Kill pod. Audible—in my experience an independent entity within their ownership structure—put a lot into it, so that’s the only place to listen for now. Hoping people sign up to show companies we care about journalism.

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