Em Steck - Writer and Researcher, KFILE
Em Steck
Writer and Researcher, KFILE
Em Steck is a writer and researcher of CNN's KFILE -- the leading investigation team for the social, mobile generation.
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RNC under Lara Trump spreads ‘massive fraud’ claims about 2020 election
Apr 11, 2024
The Republican National Committee last week sent out a scripted call to voters’ phones on behalf of new co-chair Lara Trump saying Democrats committed “massive fraud” in the 2020 election.
Byron Donalds, potential VP pick, once attacked Trump and praised outsourcing, privatizing entitlements
Mar 29, 2024
Florida Republican Rep. Byron Donalds, a Donald Trump loyalist and one of the former president’s most trusted surrogates, is widely viewed to be on Trump’s short list of vice presidential contenders.
GOP nominee to run North Carolina public schools called for violence against Democrats, including executing Obama and Biden
Mar 15, 2024
The Republican nominee for superintendent overseeing North Carolina’s public schools and its $11 billion budget has a history marked by extreme and controversial comments, including sharing deranged conspiracies and frequent calls for the execution of prominent Democrats.
Joe Biden promised to ‘absorb’ 2 million asylum seekers ‘in a heartbeat’ in 2019 - he now faces an immigration crisis
Mar 7, 2024
During his 2020 presidential campaign, Joe Biden promised a stark departure from the immigration policies of the Trump administration.
Exclusive: Key figure in fake electors plot concealed damning posts on secret Twitter account from investigators
Feb 26, 2024
Kenneth Chesebro, the right-wing attorney who helped devise the Trump campaign’s fake electors plot in 2020, concealed a secret Twitter account from Michigan prosecutors, hiding dozens of damning posts that undercut his statements to investigators about his role in the election subversion scheme, a CNN KFile investigation has found.
Likely frontrunner for RNC chair parroted Trump’s 2020 election lies
Feb 10, 2024
Former President Donald Trump and his allies are pushing to replace the chair of the Republican National Committee with North Carolina’s party leader who promoted 2020 presidential election lies and supported using the courts to overturn the results.
Ohio GOP Senate candidate endorsed by Trump deleted tweets critical of the former president
Feb 2, 2024
Bernie Moreno, a Republican businessman running for the US Senate in Ohio, once said there was “no scenario” in which he would support Donald Trump. He’s called Trump a “fake Republican” who stokes “hatred and fear” and suggested that the former president’s popularity is the result of “ignorance in our society.”
Fake Joe Biden robocall urges New Hampshire voters not to vote in Tuesday’s Democratic primary
Jan 22, 2024
A robocall that appears to be an AI voice resembling President Joe Biden is reaching out to New Hampshire residents, advising them against voting in the upcoming Tuesday’s presidential primary and saving their vote for the November general election.
GOP front-runner for North Carolina governor supported banning abortions without exceptions. Now he avoids using the ‘a-word’
Jan 17, 2024
North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, the state’s second highest-ranking elected official and its leading Republican candidate for governor in 2024, once hailed banning abortion as his top priority, advocating for its complete ban without exceptions.
Harvard president’s corrections do not address her clearest instances of plagiarism, including as a student in the 1990s
Dec 20, 2023
Harvard’s recent correction of two academic papers written by Harvard’s president did not address even clearer examples of plagiarism from earlier in Claudine Gay’s academic history at the school, according to a CNN analysis of her writings.
Trump defends former influencer convicted of election interference who has racist, antisemitic past
Dec 18, 2023
Donald Trump and Donald Trump Jr. have come to the defense of a one-time social media influencer who has been convicted of election interference and has a well-known history of pushing deeply racist, antisemitic, anti-Muslim and homophobic content online.
House Speaker Mike Johnson pursues impeachment strategy he once said could cause ‘irreparable damage’ to the country
Dec 11, 2023
House Speaker Mike Johnson is pursuing an impeachment strategy against President Joe Biden that he once said could cause “irreparable damage” to the country when Democrats sought to oust then-President Donald Trump, according to a CNN KFile review of his past public comments.
Fact Check: Nikki Haley makes a misleading claim about TikTok leading to antisemitism
Dec 8, 2023
At Wednesday night’s Republican debate, Nikki Haley reiterated her pledge to ban the Chinese social media platform TikTok in the United States, citing a statistic that the app makes people more antisemitic.
Speaker Johnson wrote foreword for book filled with conspiracy theories and homophobic insults
Dec 1, 2023
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson wrote the foreword and publicly promoted a 2022 book that spread baseless and discredited conspiracy theories and used derogatory homophobic insults.
Arizona fake electors led vocal campaign to overturn the 2020 election – they’re now part of a ‘robust’ state investigation
Nov 10, 2023
Fake electors in Arizona publicly pushed to overturn the 2020 election. Now they’re facing new legal scrutiny in a state investigation.
McCormick wants the US to divest from China. As a hedge fund manager, he oversaw investments in Chinese companies
Nov 4, 2023
In Republican David McCormick’s second bid for US Senate in Pennsylvania, he has rebranded himself as a Trumpian-hardliner on China, sounding the warning bells on US economic ties with China. However, as the head of the world’s largest hedge fund, McCormick oversaw massive investments into Chinese companies and holdings, according to a CNN KFile review of the hedge fund’s holdings.
About
Em Steck is a writer and researcher of CNN’s KFILE – the leading investigation team for the social, mobile generation. KFILE is widely praised as a “scoop team,” known for breaking news by scouring the internet through research, fact checking, and investigative reporting.
Prior to her role at KFILE, Steck covered the Russia investigation in Washington D.C. for CNN, where she helped stake out the special counsel’s office and the US District Court. Prior to that, she worked as a freelancer in content marketing.
Steck received a bachelor’s degree in film and media arts from Temple University and a master’s degree in journalism from Northwestern University.
Originally from the Philadelphia suburbs, Steck has lived in Philadelphia, London, Chicago and Washington. She currently resides in New York City.
