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En 2017, una investigacin rutinaria para la televisin llev a Ronan Farrow a una historia de la que hasta entonces solo haba rumores: uno de los productores ms poderosos de Hollywood era un depredador sexual, protegido por miedo, dinero y por una conspiracin de silencio. A medida que Farrow se iba acercando a la verdad, desde abogados hasta espas expertos en guerras montaron una campaa secreta de intimidacin para amenazar su carrera profesional, siguiendo cada paso que daba, e incluso exponiendo un recuento de abusos en su propia familia.Durante todo ese tiempo, Farrow y su productor tuvieron que guardar silencio, hasta ahora en que un rastro de pistas destap la corrupcin y los encubrimientos desde Hollywood a Washington y ms all.Esta es la historia no contada de las extraas tcticas de vigilancia e intimidacin desarrolladas por hombres ricos, poderosos y bien relacionados para amenazar a periodistas, evadir responsabilidades y silenciar a las vctimas de abusos.
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Ronan Farrow is an investigative journalist who writes for The New Yorker and makes documentaries for HBO. He has been an anchor and reporter at MSNBC and NBC News, and his writing has appeared in publications including The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post. A series of stories he wrote in 2017 exposed the first allegations of sexual assault against the movie producer Harvey Weinstein. Prior to his work as a journalist, he served as a State Department official in Afghanistan and Pakistan and reported to the Secretary of State as a senior official focused on youth uprisings. He is a Yale Law School-educated attorney and studied at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. He is a winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, the George Polk Award, and the National Magazine Award, among other commendations, and has been named one of Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People (and also one of People's Sexiest Men Alive, which doesn't have anything to do with his career, but he still brings it up a lot) .
