[2][3][4] Farrow argues that Weinstein was able to use Black Cube, a private Israeli intelligence service,[5] to successfully pressure executives at NBC News to kill the story there, leading him to take it to The New Yorker, where it was published and helped spark the international #MeToo movement exposing sexual abuse, mostly of women, in many industries.

Similarly, Farrow recounts the efforts of Allen's publicist, Leslee Dart—co-CEO, and co-founder of a public-relations firm—to mount a media campaign focused on countering Dylan's allegations, while working at vindicating her father:Every day, colleagues at news organizations forwarded me the emails blasted out by Allen's powerful publicist, who had years earlier orchestrated a robust publicity campaign to validate my father's sexual relationship with another one of my siblings.

Those emails featured talking points ready-made to be converted into stories, complete with validators on offer—therapists, lawyers, friends, anyone willing to label a young woman confronting a powerful man as crazy, coached, vindictive.

The New Yorker won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for Farrow's reporting, sharing the award with Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey at The New York Times.

[13][14][15] The movement began to spread virally in October 2017 as a hashtag on social media in an attempt to demonstrate the widespread prevalence of misogyny, sexual assault, and harassment, especially in the workplace.

Two months later, in July 2018, The New Yorker published an article by Farrow stating that six women had accused CBS CEO Leslie Moonves of harassment and intimidation, and that dozens more described abuse at his company.

On September 14, 2018, Farrow and Jane Mayer published information pertaining to an allegation of sexual assault by United States Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh.

The woman making the allegation was revealed to be professor Christine Blasey Ford, who would go on to testify during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing against Kavanaugh, before his successful confirmation to the Supreme Court.

[25][26][4][27] Erin Keane also wrote in Salon that Catch and Kill was a "cinematic page turner", adding that a "compelling book that readers can't help but want to finish can make an impact.