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September 18, 2025 at 12:59 pm
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Russia, China and Iran Use Kirk’s Murder to Stoke Conspiracy Theories and Division
The findings underscored remarks made last week by Gov. Spencer Cox of Utah, where Mr. Kirk was fatally shot during an appearance on a college campus on Sept. 10.
“What we are seeing is our adversaries want violence,” Mr. Cox said two days after the shooting. “We have bots from Russia, China, all over the world, that are trying to instill disinformation and encourage violence.”
Foreign influence campaigns have become a recurrent backdrop to virtually any news event in the United States — from natural disasters to elections to political crises.
Russia, China and Iran, especially, try to exploit events in the United States to push their own geopolitical agendas. While their narratives differ, and even contradict each other, they share a goal of undermining American democracy and its reputation globally.
The day after the killing, Russia’s English-language news channel, RT, repeated unsubstantiated claims that people near Mr. Kirk were making hand signs to cue the shooter. Law enforcement officials have said Tyler Robinson, the man charged in the killing, acted alone.
Aleksandr Dugin, a prominent ultranationalist writer in Russia, falsely claimed in subsequent days that the “Deep State” and George Soros’s Open Society Foundations were behind the killing because of Mr. Kirk’s faith and patriotic values — a theme echoed among some conservatives in the United States, as well.
“Charlie Kirk was on our side of the front line that now divides humanity,” Mr. Dugin wrote. “The civil war in the U.S.A. is not something distant.”
Russia’s state media sought to link the assassination to the war in Ukraine, while officials and pro-Russian accounts online even suggested that Ukraine was somehow behind it. NewsGuard noted that the Russians made the same claims after the attempted assassination of President Trump during last year’s election campaign, which had no link at all to Ukraine or the war. In the past, Russia, like other adversaries, has also spread similar narratives using bot accounts posing as Americans.
Iran claimed that Israel’s secret service carried out the killing as a way to distract Americans from the killings of Palestinians in Gaza. China, not inaccurately, portrayed the United States as a deeply divided country, but one pro-China account on X falsely stated that the shooter donated $224 to President Trump’s election campaign in 2020, according to NewsGuard.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/busin...ories.html
The findings underscored remarks made last week by Gov. Spencer Cox of Utah, where Mr. Kirk was fatally shot during an appearance on a college campus on Sept. 10.
“What we are seeing is our adversaries want violence,” Mr. Cox said two days after the shooting. “We have bots from Russia, China, all over the world, that are trying to instill disinformation and encourage violence.”
Foreign influence campaigns have become a recurrent backdrop to virtually any news event in the United States — from natural disasters to elections to political crises.
Russia, China and Iran, especially, try to exploit events in the United States to push their own geopolitical agendas. While their narratives differ, and even contradict each other, they share a goal of undermining American democracy and its reputation globally.
The day after the killing, Russia’s English-language news channel, RT, repeated unsubstantiated claims that people near Mr. Kirk were making hand signs to cue the shooter. Law enforcement officials have said Tyler Robinson, the man charged in the killing, acted alone.
Aleksandr Dugin, a prominent ultranationalist writer in Russia, falsely claimed in subsequent days that the “Deep State” and George Soros’s Open Society Foundations were behind the killing because of Mr. Kirk’s faith and patriotic values — a theme echoed among some conservatives in the United States, as well.
“Charlie Kirk was on our side of the front line that now divides humanity,” Mr. Dugin wrote. “The civil war in the U.S.A. is not something distant.”
Russia’s state media sought to link the assassination to the war in Ukraine, while officials and pro-Russian accounts online even suggested that Ukraine was somehow behind it. NewsGuard noted that the Russians made the same claims after the attempted assassination of President Trump during last year’s election campaign, which had no link at all to Ukraine or the war. In the past, Russia, like other adversaries, has also spread similar narratives using bot accounts posing as Americans.
Iran claimed that Israel’s secret service carried out the killing as a way to distract Americans from the killings of Palestinians in Gaza. China, not inaccurately, portrayed the United States as a deeply divided country, but one pro-China account on X falsely stated that the shooter donated $224 to President Trump’s election campaign in 2020, according to NewsGuard.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/busin...ories.html
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
