Pulitzer-winning investigative journo at New Yorker. Documentaries at HBO. Ex-diplomat. Bad lawyer. Disused phd. Tips: ronan_farrow@newyorker.com.https://bsky.app/profile/ronanfarrow.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/ronanfarrow.bsky.social/post/3mvq2eggars2h(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 #AI17 Sep 2026 16:14 +0000at://did:plc:ailcznd2ut65bpifgi5dfuzs/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvq2eggars2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/ronanfarrow.bsky.social/post/3mu3ngfc2ks2yGeorgia 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 #US27 Aug 2026 20:04 +0000at://did:plc:ailcznd2ut65bpifgi5dfuzs/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu3ngfc2ks2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/ronanfarrow.bsky.social/post/3mthcaeulw22yNearly 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 #Politics19 Aug 2026 17:51 +0000at://did:plc:ailcznd2ut65bpifgi5dfuzs/app.bsky.feed.post/3mthcaeulw22yhttps://bsky.app/profile/ronanfarrow.bsky.social/post/3mq3cqafink2nPrivate 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 #privateequity07 Jul 2026 19:12 +0000at://did:plc:ailcznd2ut65bpifgi5dfuzs/app.bsky.feed.post/3mq3cqafink2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/ronanfarrow.bsky.social/post/3mp2c5xp2g22mThe 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 #climatechange24 Jun 2026 16:04 +0000at://did:plc:ailcznd2ut65bpifgi5dfuzs/app.bsky.feed.post/3mp2c5xp2g22mhttps://bsky.app/profile/ronanfarrow.bsky.social/post/3mnx2e7fpu222Tonight, 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: https://tribecafilm.com/films/not-a-very-good-murderer-the-palladino-files-event-2026👇10 Jun 2026 15:41 +0000at://did:plc:ailcznd2ut65bpifgi5dfuzs/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnx2e7fpu222https://bsky.app/profile/ronanfarrow.bsky.social/post/3mjzoyt3zzc2k(🧵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.21 Apr 2026 19:15 +0000at://did:plc:ailcznd2ut65bpifgi5dfuzs/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjzoyt3zzc2khttps://bsky.app/profile/ronanfarrow.bsky.social/post/3mitapp7j2s2cThe reporting on OpenAI and Sam Altman I've been working on for the past year and a half, for @newyorker.com, with Andrew Marantz: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/04/13/sam-altman-may-control-our-future-can-he-be-trusted06 Apr 2026 12:18 +0000at://did:plc:ailcznd2ut65bpifgi5dfuzs/app.bsky.feed.post/3mitapp7j2s2chttps://bsky.app/profile/ronanfarrow.bsky.social/post/3mfwdaghlbs2bJeff 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: 🧵28 Feb 2026 13:26 +0000at://did:plc:ailcznd2ut65bpifgi5dfuzs/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfwdaghlbs2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/ronanfarrow.bsky.social/post/3memdmkpwti2m(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.11 Feb 2026 20:41 +0000at://did:plc:ailcznd2ut65bpifgi5dfuzs/app.bsky.feed.post/3memdmkpwti2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/ronanfarrow.bsky.social/post/3me2j3baziq2mFor 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.04 Feb 2026 18:31 +0000at://did:plc:ailcznd2ut65bpifgi5dfuzs/app.bsky.feed.post/3me2j3baziq2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/ronanfarrow.bsky.social/post/3mdtmsozif22f(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:02 Feb 2026 00:49 +0000at://did:plc:ailcznd2ut65bpifgi5dfuzs/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdtmsozif22fhttps://bsky.app/profile/ronanfarrow.bsky.social/post/3mdoynucav22mDon 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.31 Jan 2026 04:38 +0000at://did:plc:ailcznd2ut65bpifgi5dfuzs/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdoynucav22mhttps://bsky.app/profile/ronanfarrow.bsky.social/post/3mc37n2v6os2xOn 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.10 Jan 2026 14:24 +0000at://did:plc:ailcznd2ut65bpifgi5dfuzs/app.bsky.feed.post/3mc37n2v6os2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/ronanfarrow.bsky.social/post/3mb4xsb6z5s23Seven 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.29 Dec 2025 13:44 +0000at://did:plc:ailcznd2ut65bpifgi5dfuzs/app.bsky.feed.post/3mb4xsb6z5s23https://bsky.app/profile/ronanfarrow.bsky.social/post/3m62zkemmts2qSomeone is buying up American starter homes and pricing you out. But it’s not who you’ve been told. #EconSky #Housing #PolSky #RonanFarrow20 Nov 2025 14:54 +0000at://did:plc:ailcznd2ut65bpifgi5dfuzs/app.bsky.feed.post/3m62zkemmts2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/ronanfarrow.bsky.social/post/3m54tyi2jf22qHow Wall Street turns your monthly bills into its debt payments. #News #Finance #WallStreet #Debt #Infrastructure #politics08 Nov 2025 14:55 +0000at://did:plc:ailcznd2ut65bpifgi5dfuzs/app.bsky.feed.post/3m54tyi2jf22qhttps://bsky.app/profile/ronanfarrow.bsky.social/post/3m3xruyt3cc2jThe 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.24 Oct 2025 21:09 +0000at://did:plc:ailcznd2ut65bpifgi5dfuzs/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3xruyt3cc2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/ronanfarrow.bsky.social/post/3m2n425wsxs2fTwo 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: https://vote.signalaward.com/PublicVoting/?utm_campaign=pv_email_conf&utm_medium=email&utm_source=cio#/2025/limited-series-specials/craft/best-host07 Oct 2025 21:46 +0000at://did:plc:ailcznd2ut65bpifgi5dfuzs/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2n425wsxs2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/ronanfarrow.bsky.social/post/3m2crd7mohk22The 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 #NewsExplained03 Oct 2025 19:08 +0000at://did:plc:ailcznd2ut65bpifgi5dfuzs/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2crd7mohk22https://bsky.app/profile/ronanfarrow.bsky.social/post/3lztt5diukc2vNot 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: https://vote.signalaward.com/PublicVoting/?utm_campaign=pv_email_conf&utm_medium=email&utm_source=cio#/2025/limited-series-specials/craft/best-host and Best Host: https://vote.signalaward.com/PublicVoting/?utm_campaign=pv_email_conf&utm_medium=email&utm_source=cio#/2025/limited-series-specials/genre/true-crime27 Sep 2025 20:30 +0000at://did:plc:ailcznd2ut65bpifgi5dfuzs/app.bsky.feed.post/3lztt5diukc2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/ronanfarrow.bsky.social/post/3lzrmt36h5s2pThe far right in America today: a quick primer. #Politics #Democracy26 Sep 2025 23:32 +0000at://did:plc:ailcznd2ut65bpifgi5dfuzs/app.bsky.feed.post/3lzrmt36h5s2phttps://bsky.app/profile/ronanfarrow.bsky.social/post/3lzlkbfhkzk2eSocial 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 #Section23024 Sep 2025 13:30 +0000at://did:plc:ailcznd2ut65bpifgi5dfuzs/app.bsky.feed.post/3lzlkbfhkzk2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/ronanfarrow.bsky.social/post/3lzbzvfmfyc23Was 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 #jimmykimmel20 Sep 2025 18:43 +0000at://did:plc:ailcznd2ut65bpifgi5dfuzs/app.bsky.feed.post/3lzbzvfmfyc23https://bsky.app/profile/ronanfarrow.bsky.social/post/3lz2kbhs4zc2zWho 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 #Gaza17 Sep 2025 19:15 +0000at://did:plc:ailcznd2ut65bpifgi5dfuzs/app.bsky.feed.post/3lz2kbhs4zc2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/ronanfarrow.bsky.social/post/3ly2ajaa7es2lICE just reactivated its contract with an Israeli firm that makes phone-hacking spyware. Here's what you should know. #ICE #NewsUS #Hacking #spyware04 Sep 2025 22:55 +0000at://did:plc:ailcznd2ut65bpifgi5dfuzs/app.bsky.feed.post/3ly2ajaa7es2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/ronanfarrow.bsky.social/post/3lvbsgpwsls24Trump’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 #Politics31 Jul 2025 18:49 +0000at://did:plc:ailcznd2ut65bpifgi5dfuzs/app.bsky.feed.post/3lvbsgpwsls24https://bsky.app/profile/ronanfarrow.bsky.social/post/3ltzyjmanss2zI 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: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/03/31/how-police-let-one-of-americas-most-prolific-predators-get-away15 Jul 2025 22:51 +0000at://did:plc:ailcznd2ut65bpifgi5dfuzs/app.bsky.feed.post/3ltzyjmanss2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/ronanfarrow.bsky.social/post/3ltsfwnkefk2gWhat 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 #pressfreedom12 Jul 2025 22:30 +0000at://did:plc:ailcznd2ut65bpifgi5dfuzs/app.bsky.feed.post/3ltsfwnkefk2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/ronanfarrow.bsky.social/post/3ltqbj3lscs2xThe 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: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/war-on-peace-ronan-farrow/112770390312 Jul 2025 02:05 +0000at://did:plc:ailcznd2ut65bpifgi5dfuzs/app.bsky.feed.post/3ltqbj3lscs2x