Donie O'Sullivan
@donie
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CNN Senior Correspondent // š§Check out our new podcast āPersuadableā link in bio
New York City
Joined December 2010
Boy Crisis of 2025, Meet the āBoy Problemā of the 1900s https://t.co/6NjAtBynEm via @NYTOpinion
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It takes a village to raise a child. But some of the villagers must be men.
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At 9 p.m. ET tonight, we'll be live from Anchorage, Alaska on the eve of the Trump-Putin summit. We'll have the latest on what to expect when both leaders touch down here tomorrow with our reporters on the ground.
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ICYMI: We met the master debaters. https://t.co/nFXBneBvez
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Charlie Kirk v. Destiny? Possibly coming to a college campus near you this fall? We go inside the weird and wild world of online debater culture. https://t.co/Vsc5orBl8C
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How streamers like @TheOmniLiberal are trying to take on @charliekirk11 -- with or without the help of the DNC https://t.co/oIMFfuqs3D
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For years, Charlie Kirk and his get-out-the-vote juggernaut Turning Point USA have debated politics on college campuses in order to register young MAGA voters. A new liberal activist group, with the...
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Virginia Giuffreās brother, Sky Roberts, says, āShe wasnāt stolen. She was preyed upon.ā
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We went back to the White House to check in on how MAGA media is covering -- or not covering -- the Epstein story. Watch: https://t.co/O4NwZD9dIo
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Trump on New York: āItās so bad, so sad to see. Heās a lunatic, and we just have to stop it. These people come in, you never want to see a thing like that happen. And weāve expressed our opinions very, very strongly. Terrible thing."
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"You want a white nation? Build a white town. It can be done. And we're doing it." We went inside @RTTL_Official, up in the Ozark mountains in Arkansas.
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French president sues Candace Owens over claims his wife is a man https://t.co/p5HdyJ0jH8
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Analysis: QAnon shows the staying power of Epstein theories. Trump should know they wonāt go away https://t.co/LxDCcfIPPw
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Itās easy to underestimate the power of online conspiracy theories and the emotions they can conjure ā and it seems Trump himself might be doing so now.
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A buried scandal that's haunted Ireland for decades, with excavations now underway for the remains of hundreds of babies at a home for unwed mothersā their remains hidden in a septic tank beneath a housing estate. CNNās @donie on this painful story.
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A brilliant conversation about two important subjects: The particular kind of journalism involved in covering extremism and conspiracy theories, and the impact that covering these subjects has on the journalists themselves.
Long chat with @elspethreeve here -- check it out and let us know what you think. Here for the hate. Thank you for your attention to this matter. https://t.co/Nxoo7UAQX6
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"On their face, conspiracy theories can seem stupid, like vapid online chatter... But they donāt go away and neither do the people who passionately believe in them. President Trump may be learning that the hard way." ā@Donie
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Itās easy to underestimate the power of online conspiracy theories and the emotions they can conjure ā and it seems Trump himself might be doing so now.
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Long chat with @elspethreeve here -- check it out and let us know what you think. Here for the hate. Thank you for your attention to this matter. https://t.co/Nxoo7UAQX6
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.@donie cites on CNN my ongoing tracker of Trump's amplifications on Truth Social of QAnon-promoting accounts, which has now crossed the 1,000 mark. https://t.co/ebc1ETXpxt
The disconnect on Epstein between Trump and his hyper-online base shows that while the president is a prolific poster -- he perhaps isn't as savvy a consumer of social media. Discussion w/@kaitlancollins & @DashaBurns Column from me on this here: https://t.co/LxDCcfIPPw
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The disconnect on Epstein between Trump and his hyper-online base shows that while the president is a prolific poster -- he perhaps isn't as savvy a consumer of social media. Discussion w/@kaitlancollins & @DashaBurns Column from me on this here: https://t.co/LxDCcfIPPw
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Either Trump is playing dumb here and hoping he can wish the Epstein obsession away ā or perhaps this is a remarkable instance of the 79-year-old president not fully grasping how profoundly he has stoked and encouraged the conspiratorial beliefs of many in his base.
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Itās easy to underestimate the power of online conspiracy theories and the emotions they can conjure ā and it seems Trump himself might be doing so now.
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How one woman uncovered a dark secret that shocked Ireland https://t.co/5iM43FyF9m via @YouTube
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