US EditionSpeaker at Charlie Kirk's Funeral Shares Heartbreaking Details About Moments After Fatal Shooting
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By Daniel Dale, CNN Photos and False Affirmations. Absurd conspiracy theories. The public murder of conservative activist Charlie Kirk in Utah, captured in creepy images that spread all over the world, has unleashed an avalanche of misinformation. False claims have been spread on social media by both Americans of different political ideas and foreign adversaries. Meanwhile, important members of President Donald Trump’s government have made state…
Online Conspiracy Theories About Charlie Kirk’s Death Are ‘Getting Really Ugly’: CNN
Just over a week after Charlie Kirk was assassinated while speaking at Utah Valley University, CNN reporter Marshall Cohen said social media is getting “really ugly” with conspiracy theories about the conservative activist’s death. Cohen said data analytics from PeakMetrics showed there have been more than two million distinct posts on X referencing conspiracy theories since Kirk’s murder. “They found that this was actually twice as many conspir…
Kirk Shooting Unleashes Flood of Conspiracy Theories
Wall Street Journal: “On the eve of Kirk’s funeral, this official version of events—presented by Utah’s governor and county attorney and the Federal Bureau of Investigation—has been met with a tsunami of disbelief by swaths of the public.” “Without any basis in fact, Kirk’s killing has variously been attributed to Israel, the MAGA movement—of which Kirk was a part—transgender militants or the far-right Groypers. Robinson either acted alone, as t…
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