PERSON: Donie O’Sullivan

Senior Correspondent

Donie O’Sullivan (born 1990 or 1991) is an Irish journalist working for CNN in New York City.

He worked for Storyful in Dublin and New York, and joined CNN in 2016.

O’Sullivan has covered the impact of social media on politics and reported on the 2021 United States Capitol attack. When Mike Lindell held a three-day “Cyber Symposium” in August 2021, with a promise that he would present “irrefutable evidence” of election fraud, O’Sullivan attended and brought cybersecurity expert Harri Hursti to the conference; Hursti said that Lindell’s purported evidence was a “pile of nothing” and found no proof of election fraud.

In 2021, O’Sullivan’s work on a story about a Covid-19 “patient-zero conspiracy theory” (broadcast by CNN in 2020) was nominated for a News & Documentary Emmy Award. Donie O’Sullivan: Capitol Man, a documentary covering O’Sullivan’s own life and move from “a small town in Kerry to become an international household name,” was commissioned by RTÉ Television, and broadcast in Ireland in January 2022.

In December 2022, O’Sullivan’s Twitter account was among several journalist’s accounts that were suspended after covering Twitter’s owner Elon Musk during the Twitter suspensions of December 2022. Musk accused O’Sullivan of violating Twitter’s policy on doxing.

In September 2023, O’Sullivan worked on an episode of the CNN series The Whole Story With Anderson Cooper, Titled Waiting for JFK: Report from the Fringe, the episode focused on the toll conspiracy theories were having on American families.

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