[snorrah]

So in this thread we have mrtksn calling this lousy journalism, and madeuptemcappt saying it’s a well-researched and cited article.

So which is it?

[scottlocklin]

It's a series of fairly unlikely assertions backed with plausible looking narrative and interviews. Pretty typical for the NYT these days, and very sad.

IEEE Spectrum did a series of articles on this; I thought the mostly likely explanation was ultrasound jammers and intermodulation distortion. Aka defective gear; which is why the same thing seems to have happened in China as well as Cuba.

[tim333]

There's a link to one of the IEEE articles here https://spectrum.ieee.org/semiconductors/devices/how-we-reve...

with a recording of sounds recorded at the embassy and their attempts to reproduce it. To me the microwave theory seems a better fit.

[scottlocklin]

This is the one I had in mind:

https://spectrum.ieee.org/semiconductors/devices/finally-a-l...