Charlie Kirk
(1993-2025)
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Social media users are spreading elaborate and entirely unsubstantiated theories about what happened to the conservative commentator.
By Stuart A. Thompson
Social media users are spreading elaborate and entirely unsubstantiated theories about what happened to the conservative commentator.
Charlie Kirk
(1993-2025)
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Social media users are spreading elaborate and entirely unsubstantiated theories about what happened to the conservative commentator.
By Stuart A. Thompson

Within hours of the shooting, videos, photos, and eyewitness accounts began circulating on social media, with users rushing to…

The shooter of Charlie Kirk is still at large and unidentified.

The online reaction followed a well-trodden pattern of conspiracy theories and misinformation in the wake of major events, writes…

Mr. Kirk, 31, the founder of a right-wing youth activist group, was shot while speaking at the university on Wednesday.

MAGA Republicans have spent the days since Charlie Kirk's tragic shooting death posting online that the shooter must be a radical…

Video of the incident shows Charlie Kirk speaking to a large outdoor crowd when a gunshot rings out.

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