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ARTICLE VIEW:
People are getting fired for allegedly celebrating Charlie Kirk’s
murder. It looks like a coordinated effort
By Ramishah Maruf, CNN
Updated:
6:09 PM EDT, Mon September 15, 2025
Source: CNN
Dozens of social media posts and messages about the murder of Charlie
Kirk, including some that celebrated his death, are being spotlighted
by conservative activists, Republican elected officials and a doxxing
website as part of an online campaign to punish the posters behind the
messages.
Prominent far-right influencer Laura Loomer, a US senator, and a site
called “Expose Charlie’s Murderers” have all drawn attention to
people who have posted messages about Kirk’s Wednesday assassination.
The campaigns show how social media posts or personal messages — even
by accounts with few followers or from people who are not public
figures — could easily be surfaced and publicized, and people’s
personal information can be spread across the internet at a time when
doxxing is easier than ever.
The Charlie’s Murderers site, whose domain was registered anonymously
and which says it is not a doxxing site, claimed it has “received
nearly 30,000 submissions,” according to a message on the site’s
front page on midday Saturday. At the time there were a few dozen
submissions published on the site. “This website will soon be
converted into a searchable database of all 30,000 submissions,
filterable by general location and job industry. This is a permanent
and continuously-updating archive of Radical activists calling for
violence.”
As of Monday, the site was taken down after donations in
cryptocurrency. An X account with more than 100,000 followers claiming
to be controlled by the “political operatives” behind the site said
it had as the “Charlie Kirk Data Foundation” but does not feature
the list of social media users who commented on Kirk’s death. That
site was also taken down later that day.
Most people whose messages were posted on the site do not seem to refer
to themselves as activists, nor did it seem many were calling for
violence. Administrators for the site did not respond to a request for
comment. The site also opened an X account on Friday.
Loomer posted on X on Wednesday, hours after the fatal shooting, that
“I will be spending my night making everyone I find online who
celebrates his death Famous, so prepare to have your whole future
professional aspirations ruined if you are sick enough to celebrate his
death.” CNN was unable to reach Loomer for comment.
On , one account has begun a running “Trophy Case” — a
“mega-thread of all of the people Twitter gets fired, updated live as
the news comes in,” with dozens of entries of people it claims have
lost their jobs.
And after MSNBC fired senior political analyst after he said Kirk’s
rhetoric might have contributed to his shooting, President Donald Trump
himself weighed in.
“They fired this guy, Dowd from (MSNBC), who’s a terrible guy,
terrible human being, but they fired him. I hear they’re firing other
people,” Trump said on Fox News on Friday morning. after the firing,
Dowd said the “Right Wing media mob” attacked him on several
platforms. CNN has reached out to Dowd for comment.
Some of the people whose posts were highlighted say they’re now
receiving a barrage of harassment and are worried about becoming the
victims of violence.
For example, Canadian independent journalist Rachel Gilmore posted that
she is “terrified” about retaliation from Kirk’s “far-right
fans” after the shooting. That post is the first listed on the
anonymous website, including a part where Gilmore said she hoped Kirk
survives. She said in a online that she did not celebrate Kirk’s
death and said she hoped he survives in another post. She also said she
received a “tsunami” of threats and called the last 48 hours of her
life “a living hell.”
, a former Florida coronavirus data scientist the state of Florida
pressured her to manipulate pandemic data, said she contacted the
police twice about death threats and about the “hit list,” her name
for the anonymous site. Jones’ claims about Florida’s pandemic data
were found to be “unsubstantiated,” according to a state inspector
general report, a finding she disagrees with.
Jones posted about Kirk on Wednesday, writing: “Save your sympathies
for the innocent bystanders caught in the crossfire of MAGA’s violent
political messaging machine.” The website republished that post along
with other pieces of Jones’ personal information.
“It is absolutely fair to call it a coordinated harassment
campaign,” said Laura Edelson, assistant professor at Northeastern
University and director of the Cybersecurity for Democracy Project.
“That’s absolutely why it exists, to coordinate and target the
harassment toward the selected individuals.”
Who is getting fired?
Some Republican elected officials are also publicizing people who
posted about Kirk’s murder, including some public-sector employees
like teachers.
Republican Sen. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee a Middle Tennessee State
University employee should be removed after writing they had “ZERO
sympathy” for Kirk’s death. The university to CNN in a statement
that the employee was fired “effective immediately.”
“No university employee who celebrates the assassination of Charlie
Kirk should be trusted to shape the minds of the next generation in the
classroom. The firing of this MTSU employee was the right decision, and
it sends a clear message that this kind of reprehensible behavior must
not be tolerated,” Blackburn said in a statement to CNN.
GOP Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina also encouraged the firing of a
public school teacher, whom the school district later to local news was
no longer employed with the district.
And private companies, such as and the , have also let employees go for
their social media posts about Kirk.
Longtime Washington Post writer Karen Attiah said she had been from the
paper’s opinion desk for “speaking out against political violence,
racial double standards, and America’s apathy toward guns.” The
Post declined to comment on personnel matters.
DC Comics the just-released “Red Hood” comic book series after its
author, Gretchen Felker-Martin, made comments about Kirk’s death on
social media.
In since-deleted posts captured in screengrabs shared by other social
media users, allegedly wrote on social media after news of Kirk’s
death: “Hope the bullet’s OK.”
“At DC Comics, we place the highest value on our creators and
community and affirm the right to peaceful, individual expression of
personal viewpoints. Posts or public comments that can be viewed as
promoting hostility or violence are inconsistent with DC’s standards
of conduct,” the company, which like CNN is owned by Warner Bros.
Discovery, said in a statement. CNN has reached out to representatives
for Felker-Martin for comment.
And the big three US airlines – Delta Air Lines, American Airlines
and United Airlines – all said they had workers for social media
posts they made about the shooting.
In most places, private companies can fire employees for any reason —
and that includes crass social media posts, said Jeffrey Hirsch, a
professor of labor and employment law at the University of North
Carolina. It’s a little trickier for public sector employees, but
their firings are also justified if the speech is “so egregious it
disrupts operations.”
In a 1987 , the Supreme Court decided that it was constitutionally
protected speech, and not grounds for firing, for a government employee
to tell her co-workers she was sorry that a would-be assassin failed to
kill President Reagan.
It’s extra sensitive for teachers, Hirsch said, since they work with
young people, especially if the posts are applauding political
violence. “The reality of the situation is, if they’re getting
flooded, even if it’s from one political wing, with complaints,
it’s likely to push an employer to fire somebody,” he said.
A range of posts
In other cases, some social media users highlighted Kirk’s pro-Second
Amendment stance, including news reports that he said some gun deaths
were “unfortunately” worth it to keep the Second Amendment.
The highlighted social media entries span a range of responses to
Kirk’s shooting. One post, for example, simply noted the world
continued on.
The website says its explicit aim is to get the people it spotlights
fired. It was through a privacy service with an address in Iceland.
And the site’s name already implies that the people whose information
it shares are responsible for Kirk’s murder, paving the way for
harassment, Hank Teran, CEO at open-source threat intelligence platform
Open Measures, told CNN. The website also echoes back to Kirk-founded
conservative group Turning Point’s “Professor Watchlist,” whose
was to unmask what it called “radical professors,” but often led to
harassment and violent threats directed toward people named on that
list.
Altogether, “it could be reasonable to conclude that there’s some
intent to incite harassment,” Teran said.
High political tensions across the country are ramping up people’s
emotional responses, said Edelson, the Northeastern professor, and it
“creates a need to do something.”
The blanket blame on “the left” in some cases extends the blame
past the shooter into an amorphous enemy, Whitney Phillips, assistant
professor of information politics and ethics at the University of
Oregon, told CNN.
“Attempts to call out people designated as being celebratory of
Kirk’s death, or merely critical of Kirk’s life, work to give shape
and weight to that enemy,” Philips said. That feeds into “a false
culture war framing.” As a result, she said, disconnected groups can
be perceived as “a downright spiritual enemy of conservatives, and by
extension, of America itself.”
CNN’s Dan Heching, Brian Stelter and Pete Muntean contributed to this
report. 
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