Andrew Kaczynski

CNN senior politics reporter Co-founder @TeamBeansFund - funding childhood cancer research in memory of my daughter. Signal: Akzn.24

[Zachary Cohen @ZcohenCNN]

NEW: The US military was prepared to board a Chinese vessel in the Middle East earlier this spring -- during war with Iran -- after an intel report concluded it was transporting components of a nuclear weapons program.

But just before the planned operation, officials discovered the report had been generated w/ help of AI & chatbot used by the analyst inaccurately identified what the ship was carrying, sources tell @KatieBoLillis & me.

[Andrew Kaczynski @KFILE]

@DanaVanEffen906 We mentioned them in the digital story, but it was actually broken by talking points memo who they don’t cite

[Andrew Kaczynski @KFILE]

NEW: A KFile first uncovering a far-right salsa business account from a GOP nominee in a key House swing district. Deleted posts included viciously anti-Muslim rhetoric, suggestions of execution for Trump’s opponents, 4AM messages from God for Dan Bongino.

[Erin Burnett OutFront @OutFrontCNN]

An exclusive report from @KFILE on a race that could determine who controls the house. The Republican candidate deleting thousands of posts and reposts, including a pattern of anti-Muslim attacks and one that implied Trump's opponents be put to death.

[Andrew Kaczynski @KFILE]

This is an open invitation to staffers to DM me to set this up — we are willing to also do goldeneye

[Andrew Kaczynski @KFILE]

Happy to do this with any 2028 candidate, but Mario kart 64

[amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17]

“On three consecutive days in May 2024, he wrote that he had been ��awakened at 4:30 AM with a message from God for Dan Bongino.”

[Andrew Kaczynski @KFILE]

Happy to do this with any 2028 candidate, but Mario kart 64

[Alex Thompson @AlexThomp]

Newsom tells @jaketapper he won’t run in 2028 if Kamala Harris runs.

[Andrew Kaczynski @KFILE]

A CNN KFile review of some 13,000 archived posts from Smith’s now-deleted account showed a pattern of far-right rhetoric than previously reported, including repeated accusations of treason, attacks on Muslim Americans and Islam, birther-style conspiracy theories about Barack Obama, and posts in which Smith said he had been awakened before dawn with a message from God for conservative radio host Dan Bongino.

https://t.co/kQTNuo8OPN

[Andrew Kaczynski @KFILE]

NEW KFile: The GOP nominee in a key Michigan swing district deleted social media accounts he ran for his salsa busines that had years of inflammatory and far-right rhetoric, including a repost that suggested the possibility of the death penalty for Trump’s political opponents.

[Andrew Kaczynski @KFILE]

Tom Smith, a 75-year-old retired General Motors employee and Flint-area Salsa small-business owner, became the surprise Republican nominee last month after an improbable primary victory over the Trump-endorsed candidate despite suspending his campaign before Election Day.

Link: https://t.co/GkBajpLwVh

[Andrew Kaczynski @KFILE]

North Carolina Democrats have already done more condemnation of this candidate by the way

[Andrew Kaczynski @KFILE]

Given that the North Carolina Republican Party actively backed a 2024 candidate to run the state’s public schools who had called for Democrats to be publicly executed, I’m not sure they’re the best messenger for this particular line.

[NCGOP @NCGOP]

You are the company you keep.

Democrat Justice Anita Earls pictured with Shelly Headen 👀

ICYMI: Shelly Headen posted that Trump supporters belong in WWII concentration camps.

[Evan Gorelick @EvanGorelick]

Scoop: Obama implored Democratic leaders to move A.I. oversight to the center of the party's agenda, warning during a private fundraiser this past week that the technology could be “dangerous” if they do not get on top of it. https://t.co/nkO0Hz9DMy

[Anderson Cooper 360° @AC360]

Anderson Cooper asks Anthropic CEO about AI wiping out humanity.

[emily may @emilykmay]

one of my favorite 9/11 stories is there was a daycare in the WTC, and the workers commandeered shopping carts.

they put all the babies in shopping carts and ran for their lives. there were 28 children.

they all survived, and all their families did too

[MobstersDaily @MobstersDaily]

are you from poland

[Andrew Kaczynski @KFILE]

It feels like this would be bad for the economy

[Andrew Kaczynski @KFILE]

You can see the panic in his eyes when his insult comic shtick didn’t work on Donie

[Alex Stein #99 @alexstein99]

Confronting CNN Goblin Donie O'Sullivan

[Andrew Kaczynski @KFILE]

Remembering the post-Iraq post-911 Sesame Street, where Elmo‘s dad Louie deploys — but it doesn’t state which branches in implying he was possibly CIA.