Another Tiktok video shared with the connection showed that the bullet’s close range triggered Keck’s neck. The video’s tone was conspiring: the user who uploaded the video added weird music and digital narrative sounds, asking, “What is the black thing on his shirt, why did he move like this before he was filmed?” The video was still online as of Thursday morning. It has been going on for 8 hours and has over 900 reviews (many say the “black stuff” is a microphone).
As of Thursday morning, a search for “Charlie Kirk Shot” surfaced video on Instagram was the first result of the incident. Video Automated Game is a thumbnail without warning. At the time of writing, the video has 15.3 million views.
Not only did Kirk shoot videos spread quickly, but some clearly violated the platform’s social media policies. For example, Tiktok’s Terms of Use Status, the company does not allow “Bloody, terrifying, disturbing or extremely violent content. ”
On other platforms, Kirk Video fell into the grey area. Meta’s overall policy is to limit certain content, require warning tags, and remove some violent graphic descriptions.
A Meta spokesman said it would “label as sensitive” warning labels on footage of Kirk shooting and put it on users aged 18 and older, according to the company’s violence and graphic content policies. The spokesman also said the company had 15,000 people reviewing the content of the meta-content, although it did not say whether these were employees or contractors, and did not allow videos of glory, representatives, support, or perpetrators.
Yuan also pointed out online Transparency Center It does not allow “terrorist attacks, hate incidents, Doviktim violence or attempts to multiple Viktim violence, serial murders or hate crime criminals to produce content related to the offender or third-party images that describe the moment of attack on visible victims.” Still, it is currently allowed to film Kirk’s extensive looping footage. It will get warning tags and age, but will not be removed from the metaplatform unless it is determined that the “Honor Content” policy is clearly violated.
X tells users that they “can share graphic media if they are correctly marked, not displayed significantly, and not overly bloody or portrayed sexual violence.” The platform notes that content that “clearly threats, incites, honors or expresses a desire for violence” is not allowed.
Mahadevan of the Poynter Institute said he agreed to watch Kirk shooting videos on X several times Wednesday, likening it to “4chan into a mainstream social media platform.” (He also said he opened Facebook Thursday morning and immediately saw video of Kirk being shot.)
X did not respond to requests for comment or questions about whether Kirk videos were considered “overbloody” by X standards.
But X seems to have another content review question: hours after Kirk was declared dead, AI Chatbot Grok, running on X, insisted that Kirk is “also active as always.” X did not answer other questions about Grok’s misinformation surrounding Kirk’s shooting.
Tiktok did not respond to Wired’s request for comment. Brusky has said it is suspending accounts that encourage violence and has deleted close-up videos of the event.
Currently, videos of the Charlie Kirk shooting continue to spread online.
“It psychologically wreaks our society in ways we don’t understand,” Mahadwan said. “We saw posts about X saying, ‘Congratulations, you’ve radicalized me.’ Part of that was because they saw the video of Kirk being killed.
Other reports by Kylie Robison.
