Andrew Kaczynski

Andrew Kaczynski (born 1989 or 1990[1]) is an American journalist and a political reporter for BuzzFeed.[2] He became well known in 2011 by posting old video clips of politicians, often making statements contrary to their current political positions, to YouTube.[3] He was described as "the [2012] Republican primaries' most influential amateur opposition researcher".[4] He was hired by BuzzFeed in December 2011.[5]

Slate political reporter Dave Weigel called him “the Oppenheimer of archival video research.”[6]

Time named Kaczynski's Twitter feed one of "The 140 Best Twitter Feeds of 2013", one of ten in the Politics category.[7] He has appeared on MSNBC, Fox News, CNN, NPR, PBS, and C-SPAN.[8] He was described as a moderate Republican in a New York Magazine profile. It was later revealed Kaczynski was misquoted and called himself "a political moderate."[3][9]Kaczynski did not graduate from college.[10] He has worked as an intern for the Republican National Committee[11] and was an intern in the 2011 Congressional campaign of Bob Turner.[4] In 2013 he was listed on the Daily Beast website's "Beast Best" awards for his Twitter Feed.[12] In 2014, New York Magazine named him the 13th most influential Tweeter in New York City.[13]

In November 2013, Kaczynski reported that Kentucky Senator Rand Paul had plagiarized sections of speech he gave in June 2013 on immigration from the Wikipedia article of the movie Stand and Deliver. Kaczynski subsequently reported Paul's 2012 book Government Bullies also contained passages that were plagiarized from articles from the right wing think tank Heritage Foundation and from the libertarian Cato Institute.[14] Further reports by Kaczynski revealed another four instances of plagiarism from an article by Case Western Reserve University professor Jonathan H. Adler and Pacific Legal Foundation attorney Timothy Sandefur. Another section of the book was discovered to be plagiarized from an article written in Forbes.

In 2014, Kaczynski continued with a series of articles chronicling politicians' plagiarism. Kaczynski found more than a dozen examples of politicians running for office in 2014 copying their plans and issues pages verbatim from other candidates.[15]

Following the Boston Marathon bombings of 2013, he played a role in accidentally spreading misinformation about the identities of the suspected bombers when he retweeted false reports made by Reddit user Greg Hughes.[16][17]

References

  1. ↑ "Politinerds 39 - Buzzfeed's Andrew Kaczynski". Vigilant Liberty Radio. 2015-11-13. Retrieved 2015-11-14.
  2. ↑ "Andrew Kaczynski, reporter for BuzzFeed Politics". BuzzFeed. Retrieved 5 April 2013.
  3. 1 2 Zengerle, Jason (Dec 11, 2011). "Playing with Mud". New York Magazine. Retrieved 5 April 2013.
  4. 1 2 Sarlin, Benjy (Dec 13, 2011). "Meet The 22-Year-Old Who’s Driving Romney Crazy". Talking Points Memo. Retrieved 5 April 2013.
  5. ↑ Sonderman, Jeff (March 20, 2012). "How BuzzFeed’s Andrew Kaczynski mines the Internet for video gold". Poynter. Retrieved 5 April 2013.
  6. ↑ http://observer.com/2011/12/buzzfeed-hires-andrew-kaczynski-oppenheimer-of-political-videos/
  7. ↑ Sorensen, Adam (March 25, 2013). "The 140 Best Twitter Feeds of 2013". Time. Retrieved 2013-03-26.
  8. ↑ "St. John’s Student Goes Viral". Retrieved 6 April 2013.
  9. ↑ https://twitter.com/buzzfeedandrew/status/367387739999985664
  10. ↑ https://twitter.com/BuzzFeedAndrew/status/441302177928470529
  11. ↑ "Matt Lewis Show: Andrew Kaczynski". Retrieved 5 April 2013.
  12. ↑ http://beastbestawards.thedailybeast.com/
  13. ↑ http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/02/most-influential-new-yorkers-on-twitter-2014.html
  14. ↑ Trujillo, Mario (November 3, 2013). "Plagiarism charges against Paul pile up". The Hill.
  15. ↑ http://www.buzzfeed.com/katherinemiller/why-politicians-plagiarism-matters#1akf4m2
  16. ↑ "The Anatomy of a Misinformation Disaster". The Atlantic. Retrieved 25 July 2013.
  17. ↑ "Should Reddit Be Blamed for the Spreading of a Smear?" The New York Times Magazine. Retrieved 25 July 2013.

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