Brandy Zadrozny
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Zadrozny at SXSW in March 2019
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| Born | 30 August 1980 |
| Alma mater | Pratt Institute |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Employer | NBC News |
| Spouse(s) | Gregory Zadrozny (m. 2008) |
| Children | 3 |
Brandy Zadrozny (born August 30, 1980) is an American investigative journalist and reporter with NBC News who specialises in political radicalization, extremism and misinformation on the internet.[1][2]
Early life and education
Before entering journalism, Zadrozny previously worked as a librarian for the New York Board of Education from 2003 to 2007 and for the Champlain College in Burlington, Vermont in 2011.[3] Before joining The Daily Beast, Zadrozny was a news librarian and researcher for ABC News from 2008 to 2009 and for Fox News from December 2011 to May 2013.
Career overview
Zadrozny started her career in journalism in 2013 at The Daily Beast.[4]
Since March 2018, Zadrozny has been working as a journalist for NBC News.
Zadrozny has reported on how grieving mothers have been radicalized through social media into taking anti-vaccine positions after being convinced that it was vaccines that were responsible for the death of their child.[5]
With the rise of the QAnon conspiracy theory throughout 2020, Zarozny has looked at the role played by social media in spreading the conspiracy theory and similar theories such as Stop the Steal which believes that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from Donald Trump by Joe Biden. The propagation of such theories has led to real-world violence. Zadrozny reported that the January 6 storming of the US Capitol was openly organized through social media channels such as right-wing networking services Parler and Gab.[6]
In October 2020, Zadrozny's journalism was targeted by Tucker Carlson on his Fox News Show Tucker Carlson Tonight by accusing her of using paid, data search engines to dox the personal information of anonymous Trump supporters online. Carlson's guest Darren Beattie, a former speechwriter for Donald Trump, accused Zadrozny of using third-party vendors to scrape phone and property records from internet users digital footprint.[7] NBC News issued a statement defending Zadrozny against the attacks by Carlson, calling them a "smear".[8]
MSNBC host Chris Hayes also came to the defence of Zadrozny.
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