1. Andrew Kaczynski was born on November 30,1989 and is an American journalist and a political reporter for CNN.
34 Facts About Andrew Kaczynski
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Andrew Kaczynski became well known in 2011 by posting old video clips of politicians, often of them making statements contrary to their current political positions, to YouTube.
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Andrew Kaczynski was described as "the [2012] Republican primaries' most influential amateur opposition researcher".
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Andrew Kaczynski has appeared on MSNBC, Fox News, CNN, NPR, PBS, and C-SPAN.
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On October 3,2016, Kaczynski announced he was leaving BuzzFeed and joining CNN.
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Andrew Kaczynski's father Stephen served in the Army and was a lawyer at the firm Jones Day and his mother Theresa was a stay-at-home mother.
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Andrew Kaczynski's parents were raised in New York City and both his grandparents served in the city's police and fire departments.
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Andrew Kaczynski is of Polish and Arbereshe heritage.
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Andrew Kaczynski enrolled in online courses to meet his degree requirement, but did not graduate.
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Andrew Kaczynski has worked as an intern for the Republican National Committee, and was an intern in 2011 in the office of Congressman Bob Turner.
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Andrew Kaczynski got his start by e-mailing reporters' tip boxes with clips he found of politicians contradicting themselves.
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Andrew Kaczynski began working for Buzzfeed at the start of 2012 while he was still studying at St Johns University.
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In March 2012, Andrew Kaczynski uncovered numerous clips of Mitt Romney supporting an individual mandate, contradicting his then-current campaign position.
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Andrew Kaczynski uncovered a clip of Barack Obama protesting at Harvard while at law school over a lack of faculty diversity.
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In November 2013, Andrew Kaczynski reported that Kentucky Senator Rand Paul had plagiarized sections of a speech he gave in June 2013 on immigration from the Wikipedia article of the movie Stand and Deliver.
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Andrew Kaczynski subsequently reported Paul's 2012 book Government Bullies contained passages that were plagiarized from articles from The Heritage Foundation and from the Cato Institute.
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The next year, Andrew Kaczynski continued with a series of articles chronicling politicians' plagiarism.
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Andrew Kaczynski found more than a dozen examples of politicians running for office in 2014 copying their plans and issues pages verbatim from other candidates.
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In January 2017, Andrew Kaczynski reported that Monica Crowley had plagiarized large sections of her 2012 book What The Just Happened.
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In 2015, Politico reported Andrew Kaczynski was leading internal opposition research at BuzzFeed looking to dig up dirt on politicians.
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Andrew Kaczynski subsequently found clips of Donald Trump supporting the 2011 American intervention in Libya, the toppling of Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, and pushing for US action to protect Iranian protesters.
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Clips Andrew Kaczynski found of Donald Trump on the Howard Stern Show were used in both Democratic and Republican attack ads against Trump and as the basis of a question in the first general election Presidential debate of 2016.
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In January 2017, Kaczynski surfaced audio of Donald Trump's nominee for secretary of labor, Andrew Puzder, describing the employees hired at his restaurants as the "best of the worst".
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On July 4,2017, Andrew Kaczynski controversially reported he used "identifying information" to find the identity of a Reddit user who created an anti-CNN video meme President Donald Trump tweeted two days prior, using a Facebook search to find them.
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Andrew Kaczynski reported the creator's identity would be withheld by CNN, since the creator was a private citizen, and because he had issued an "extensive apology".
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Andrew Kaczynski stated that the line was "misinterpreted", and that the user said that he was not threatened prior to his apology.
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In March 2019, Andrew Kaczynski reported on a 1993 Senate speech in which Joe Biden referred to "predators on our streets" and proposed that new legislation was required to utilize prisons to remove them from society.
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In 2018, Andrew Kaczynski was named to Forbes' 30 Under 30 Media list.
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Andrew Kaczynski is married to Wall Street Journal banking reporter Rachel Louise Ensign.
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On December 25,2020, Andrew Kaczynski announced the death of his nine month old daughter Francesca.
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Andrew Kaczynski died the day prior after a battle with an atypical teratoid rhabdoid tumor in her brain.
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Andrew Kaczynski was described as a moderate Republican in a New York magazine profile.
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Andrew Kaczynski is a New York Yankees, Cleveland Browns and Brooklyn Nets fan.
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At 19, Andrew Kaczynski had a bout of pancreatitis, leading him to eschew smoking and alcohol.