Brandy Zadrozny
Brandy Zadrozny is a senior reporter for NBC News. She covers misinformation, extremism and the internet.
Brandy Zadrozny is a senior reporter for NBC News. She covers misinformation, extremism and the internet.
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The ‘Flu Shot Cheerleader’ is back — with a warning about the anti-vaccine movement
In 2009, Desiree Jennings went viral for saying a flu shot triggered her mysterious illness. Now she has a warning about the anti-vaccine movement.
Facebook opened its doors to researchers. What they found paints a complicated picture of social media and echo chambers.
A landmark study of how Facebook shaped the news users saw in the run-up to the 2020 election has found the platform resulted in “significant ideological segregation” in regard to political news exposure.
What we know about Rex Heuermann, identified as the Gilgo Beach murders suspect
The suspect charged Friday in connection with a string of long-unsolved slayings of women on Long Island, New York, lived in a cozy South Shore suburb not far from the beach highway where human remains were first found more than a decade ago.
Gilgo Beach murders: 'A demon that walks amongst us' charged in Long Island serial killings
More than a decade after 11 bodies were found on Long Island and a year after he came onto officials' radar as a potential suspect, a New York architect was charged in the Gilgo Beach murders, a series of killings of mostly young women.
What we know about Rex Heuermann, identified as the Gilgo Beach murders suspect
The suspect in custody in connection with a string of long-unsolved slayings of women on Long Island lived not far from the beach highway where human remains were first found more than a decade ago.
Facebook banned anti-government ‘Boogaloo’ groups. They found a way to return, research says.
Eighteen months after Facebook banned communities connected with the “Boogaloo” anti-government movement, the group’s extremist ideas were back, research found.
The conspiracy candidate: What RFK Jr.’s anti-vaccine crusade could look like in the White House
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is a conspiracy theorist running for president as a Democrat. Experts fear his anti-vaccine activism threatens public health in America.
Musk’s response to an anti-trans video sparks 24 hours of chaos at Twitter
Twitter was roiled by an organized pressure campaign by conservative pundits seeking to promote a 95-minute anti-transgender video called “What Is A Woman?”
'Trump Bucks' retailers' websites taken down, days after being exposed for selling bogus currency
Days after NBC News reported on the alleged “Trump Bucks” internet scam, websites that duped the former president’s followers are no longer available.
‘Trump Bucks’ promise wealth for MAGA loyalty. Some lose thousands.
In the recesses of the internet where some of Donald Trump’s most fervent supporters stoke conspiracies and plot his return to the White House, suspected con artists have been mining their disappointment over the last presidential election for gold.
Texas mall shooter was expelled from military over mental health concerns
After entering basic training at Fort Benning, Georgia, in June 2008, Mauricio Garcia was seen by a doctor who identified mental health issues. Garcia, then 18, failed a psychiatric evaluation.
