Charlie Kirk Was Shot and Killed in a Post-Content-Moderation World

Another crystallization of a shared Tiktok video with WIRED showed a slow angle, close to the bullet that hit the Kirk neck. The video tone was a conspirator: The user who downloaded nervous music and the voice of my novel added, “What is the black thing on his shirt and why did he move like this before he hit him?” As of Thursday morning, the video was still connected to the Internet. It ended for eight hours and had more than 900 comments (where many said that “the black thing” was a microphone).

As of Thursday morning, on Instagram, the search for “Charlie Kirk Shot” appeared closely a video clip of the accident as a first result. Video dissection correspondence as a mini image, without warning. At the time of writing this report, the video had 15.3 million views.

Kirk videos to shoot Kirk not only spread quickly, but some are clearly violating social media policies. For example, the conditions for using Tiktok indicate that the company does not allow “full, heavy, annoying or very violent content.”

On other platforms, Kirk Video is located in a gray area. Meta’s comprehensive policy is to determine a specific content, warning stickers, and remove some graphic photography of violence.

A Meta spokesman, according to the policies of violent content and the company’s graphics, said that it applies a “sensitive” warning sign to footage of Kirk Shooting, which it lasts to users 18 and above. The spokesperson also said that the company has 15,000 people reviewing the content of Meta – although it did not say whether these are employees or contractors – and that it does not allow videos that glorify, represent or support the accident or crime.

Meta also stipulates at the Internet transparency center that it does not allow the content of “terrorist attacks, hate events, multiple violence in witnesses, multiple violence at witnesses, serial murders, or content of hate crimes related to these attacks; or third -party images depicting the moment of these attacks on clear victims.” However, the Kirk shots that are widely circulated, at the present time, are allowed. You will get a warning poster and be placed in age, but not removed from the definition platforms unless it is determined as a clear violation of the “glorious content” policy.

X tells users that they “may share graphic media if they are classified properly, are not displayed prominently and do not have excessively or perceive sexual violence.” The statute notes that the content “explicitly threatens, incites, glorified, or expressed its desire for violence” is not allowed.

Mahadevan, from the Poynter Institute, says he saw Kirk video shooting without agreeing several times on X on Wednesday, similar to a copy of “4chan that turned into a major social media platform.” (He also says it opened Facebook on Thursday morning and immediately watched a video of Kirk filmed.)

X did not respond to requests for comment or questions about whether Kirk video is considered “excessively” according to X.

But X seems to have another problem in moderation: a few hours after Kirk’s death, Ai Chatbot Grok, who works on X, insisted that Kirk was “good and active as it was always.” X did not answer other Wire Questions about Grok’s wrong information about Kirk shooting.

Tiktok did not respond to WIRED request for comment. Bluesky said it attaches accounts that encourage violence and lower videos closely to the event.

Currently, Charlie Kirk videos continue to spread online.

“This is all psychologically harmful to our society in ways that we do not understand yet.” “We see leaflets on X of people say,” Congratulations, you have extracted me. “And part of that is that they see the video that Kirk kills.

Additional reports by Kylie Robson.