Ronan Farrow

The Pentagon is ordering journalists to sign a gag pledge—even with respect to gathering unclassified information. Here are the facts.
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Note: As mentioned, Groypers use their own variant of Pepe the Frog, a toad nicknamed the “Groyper.” The image shown here is the broader Pepe meme.

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

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

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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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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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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I’ll work on that!

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

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.”

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

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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.

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.

And read my original reporting, exploring Elon Musk’s relationship with government power and (now much in the news) concerns from people around him about excessive Ketamine use, here: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

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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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.

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.

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?

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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PS: His third point about jury trials is either a misunderstanding or intentional misdirection. No one—citizen or not—gets a jury trial in immigration court. This is a basic matter of law. (6/6)

Indeed, the government has conceded that it erred, and is essentially arguing that it doesn’t matter enough to address it. This is because they assume people will not care. But everyone in the United States should care—we all depend on these basic legal rights being predictably upheld. (5/6)

Abrego Garcia‘s due process rights, under the law, required the government to go back to immigration court and make the case, if they wanted to terminate that protected status. There is no good faith legal reading in which his right to due process was respected. (4/6)

It is not relevant whether Kilmar Abrego Garcia is sympathetic, or how much you believe an (apparently shaky) claim from an informant about gang membership. The disposition of this case, after a judge reviewed the facts, was to grant Abrego Garcia protected status, preventing his deportation. (3/6)

Non-citizens physically present in the United States, regardless of their immigration status, are entitled to due process protections under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments. (2/6)

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)

An important and devastating piece from the great Ruth Marcus.

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?

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...