Ronan Farrow

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Pulitzer-winning investigative journo @newyorker. Documentaries @hbo. Ex-diplomat. Bad lawyer. Disused PhD. Tips: ronan_farrow@newyorker.com.

Genovia newyorker.com/magazine/2026/… Joined July 2011

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Ronan Farrow @RonanFarrow Apr 6

The reporting on OpenAI and Sam Altman that I've been working on for the past year and a half, for @NewYorker, with @andrewmarantz: newyorker.com/magazine/2026/…

www.newyorker.com Sam Altman May Control Our Future—Can He Be Trusted? New interviews and closely guarded documents shed light on the persistent doubts about the head of OpenAI.

Ronan Farrow @RonanFarrow Oct 27

(1/4) The cost of the Iran War won't end when the conflict does. Linda Bilmes at Harvard points out that spending on a war's veterans tends to peak 30 to 40 years after the conflict ends. For this one, that could mean around 2060.

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Ronan Farrow @RonanFarrow Oct 20

1/3 Musk ordered last week's slowdown of Starshield, which Ukraine fights on, after talking with Trump, per @WSJ. In '23 the Pentagon signed a contract with SpaceX to “prevent Musk from turning off the switch," per fmr Under Sec of Defense Colin Kahl.
newyorker.com/magazine/2023/…

www.newyorker.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.

Ronan Farrow @RonanFarrow Oct 17

Digger is a damn masterpiece. Go out to see it while you still can—the ending, updating Orwellian doublespeak for the surveillance capitalism age, turns the act of walking out of a theater into a gut punch.

And Oscar for Maggie, immediately.

Ronan Farrow @RonanFarrow Oct 13

Grindr is training its AI on your photos, your age, and your taps by default, without asking. I looked into the company’s record with user data, and where they put the off switch.

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