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Madison Czopek

Washington, D.C., United States

Staff Writer at PolitiFact

Writing for @PolitiFact in D.C. 🌸 | Former reporting for @WarehamWeek, @CoMissourian, MLex Brussels and elsewhere | #MizzouMade 🐯

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  • 3 weeks ago | politifact.com | Madison Czopek

    Our only agenda is to publish the truth so you can be an informed participant in democracy. We need your help. More Info If Your Time is short The Department of Government Efficiency’s website says it saved the federal government $180 billion while under Elon Musk’s oversight, short of its initial $2 trillion and revised $1 trillion goals. Analyses show the working tally is error-filled and exaggerated.

  • 1 month ago | yahoo.com | Madison Czopek

    Five years ago, on May 25, 2020, a white Minneapolis police officer killed George Floyd, a 46-year-old Black man, during an arrest. A bystander’s video showed officer Derek Chauvin kneeling on Floyd’s neck for about nine minutes as Floyd pleaded that he couldn’t breathe. The footage sparked weeks of global protests against police brutality and racism. It contributed to a jury’s murder conviction against Chauvin and a federal investigation into the police department.

  • 1 month ago | winnmediaskn.com | Madison Czopek |Politi Fact

    Five years after Floyd’s killing, false claims of overdose fuel calls for Trump to pardon the police officers involved. By Five years ago on May 25, 2020, a white police officer in the United States killed George Floyd, a 46-year-old Black man, during an arrest. A bystander’s video showed officer Derek Chauvin kneeling on Floyd’s neck for about nine minutes in Minneapolis, Minnesota, as Floyd pleaded that he couldn’t breathe.

  • 1 month ago | poynter.org | Madison Czopek

    Five years ago, on May 25, 2020, a white Minneapolis police officer killed George Floyd, a 46-year-old Black man, during an arrest. A bystander’s video showed officer Derek Chauvin kneeling on Floyd’s neck for about nine minutes as Floyd pleaded that he couldn’t breathe. The footage sparked weeks of global protests against police brutality and racism. It contributed to a jury’s murder conviction against Chauvin and a federal investigation into the police department.

  • 1 month ago | tampabay.com | Grace Abels |Madison Czopek

    On May 18, former President Joe Biden’s staff announced he has an aggressive form of prostate cancer. In response, several social media users began circulating a 3-year-old video clip of Biden as evidence that he knew about his diagnosis years before. “WOW: Joe Biden said literally over TWO YEARS AGO that he had cancer. The Biden regime at the time called it a ‘gaffe.’ Have they been covering this up for YEARS?” one user posted May 18 on X.

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9 May 25

RT @loujacobson: My latest @PolitiFact w/ @MadisonCzopek: Has Donald Trump secured $10 trillion in investments for U.S.? Not according to W…

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RT @PolitiFact: Elon Musk said a chart about noncitizens receiving Social Security numbers was “mind-blowing.” But it didn’t show anything…