The 3 largest types of theories of the plot of Charlie Kirk flooding Internet

The theories of conspiracy on the death of Charlie Kirk have flooded X, Tiktok and Instagram in recent days. And although Crackpot’s ideas have always followed major world events, it is undeniable that they are much more common and widespread in the social media era.

Kirk, a 31 -year -old right -wing influencer, was shot dead on September 10 while he was speaking at the University of Utah Valley in Orem, Utah. The graphic murder was captured on video from several angles since many people in the audience turned his discussion, quickly downloading images overnight.

The suspect in the murder, Tyler Robinson, 22, went to the authorities Thursday evening at local time, according to CNN. But the Internet was flooded with conspiracy theories on the death of Kirk, before and after the arrest of Robinson.

The director of the FBI, Kash Patel, appeared on Fox & Friends on Monday morning, where he made various statements on the shooting which has not yet been officially presented to a court, much less confirmed. But if the wider image that emerges is true – that a man acted alone by pulling a rifle from a roof – many conspiracy theories that arose are absolutely ridiculous.

Below, we have some of the most common categories of conspiracy theories that circulate on social networks at the moment.

Theories of “a bad man”

After filming, the FBI published images of the suspect showing him in sunglasses. The screenshots were pixelated and of low quality, which led people on X to get them through Grok in order to look better. The problem is that the execution of images via the AI ​​that tries to increase them does not give you a better or more precise image.

Laura Loodor, an extreme right influencer with close links with the White House, shared three images after the suspect’s screenshots were published for the first time by the FBI. One of the three images was the original screenshot. Two others were false images improved in Ai, giving his disciples the impression that they were legitimate photos of man.

Does anyone know who is this guy?

He was labeled a person interested in the assassination of Charlie Kirk. @FBI Looking for it. pic.twitter.com/hywtk1hxf

– Laura Loomer (@lauraumer) September 11, 2025

We examined this problem earlier this month when people on social networks run the photos of Donald Trump via AI. The speaker gave Trump a gigantic bump on his forehead, leading people to insist that he had a serious state of health. But that’s exactly what AI does to low -quality images. It will take shadows or folds on a person’s face and distort an image while trying to make it clearer.

We saw something similar happening during the Oscars in 2022 when Will Smith slapped Chris Rock. The screenshots that people had from television and then exploded seemed to be pixelated. To solve this problem, people have traveled them through speakers, and that created what looked like a strange prosthesis on rock face. From there, a conspiracy theory appeared that there was a pad protecting the face of rock, bringing people to insist that everything had been planned in advance.

This is how conspiracy theories take off now, and they are incredibly predictable. In fact, when Gizmodo saw people on X execute images of the suspect in the filming of Kirk through Grok, we knew that people would inevitably compare these false images to the real Mugshot. And of course, that’s exactly what happened.

A Tiktok account entitled Politic Nick published a video on Saturday by comparing an image managed by AI of the suspect at the Mugshot which was published.

“Okay, they are two different people here,” said the creator. “The mouth is different, the chin is different. The face is shaped different. The nose is sharp on the left. His nose is sharp. His lips are different, I mean, come on.”

This video has accumulated 1.4 million views and it is an incredibly popular feeling on other platforms like X, where high-level accounts like Jackson Hinkle and Anastasia Maria Loupis focused on the mouth in the two images. “They think you’re stupid,” wolf tweeted.

They think you’re stupid. pic.twitter.com/gwshg0vmqp

– Dr. Anastasia Maria Loupis (@drloupis_) September 14, 2025

But the reason why they seem different is that the “improved” image of AI did not present to anyone with a more precise impression of what the suspect looked like. These tools are not magical and cannot provide you with a better idea of ​​its appearance. Everything the computer has been extrapolated from the information there. And it seems that everyone who grew up in television shows where investigators can “zoom and improve” think that this is how it works in real life.

Theories “ look stronger ”

Another big bucket of conspiracy theories could be better described as “just more difficult” theories. The idea is that if you watch someone in the background of a video of Kirk’s Talk, you will discover a conspiracy hiding at sight.

It was a common tactic on X while millions of people were watching the extremely graphic videos of Kirk dying on all the main platforms. In the hours that followed Kirk, a popular theory emerged that someone standing to the right of Kirk gave “signals” to an invisible shooter.

There was clearly no signal, as anyone could see it. But the power of suggestion, combined to look at the same horrible events played many times, convinced many people that a perfectly normal behavior (a guy has just had a phone in hand) was somehow suspicious.

One of the most bizarre claims that still circulates on social networks focuses on a man who was held near Kirk during his speech on the campus. Sean Morley, a former WWE wrestler called Val Venis, helped to share the theory that the anonymous man used something called a “palm pistol” which was hidden in his fist while moving his shirt round to kill Kirk.

The claim is absurd, and it seems that online dipshits have not engraved at the idea that because the man of the video scratches his arm at the same time as Kirk has been shot. That’s really all that was, as you can see in the censored clip that we have below. There is no evidence that this man was doing something other than touching his own arm.

A video shared by Morley has more than 17 million views on X when writing this article. Others from Morley sharing changes to the same incident have several million more. And there is clearly nothing beyond a person who touches his own arm and moving his shirt a little.

Theories `En everything is trans ”

Another bucket of conspiracy theories around the death of Charlie Kirk understands the idea that murder had to be perpetrated by someone who is trans. The false idea that trans people are disproportionately represented as killers seem to have roots in a school shooting in 2023 in Nashville, Tennessee, who killed seven people, including the shooter. The author in this case was indeed trans, and now X is flooded with claims that a shooter must be trans each time a new mass shot makes the news. As Politifact notes, trans people are much more likely to be victims of violence rather than authors.

After Kirk was killed, at least three different people were falsely blamed for the shooting on X, by Gizmodo’s count. Messages have become viral with wild claims on various people who had absolutely nothing to do with the death of Kirk.

After it became clear that the suspect in this case was a cisgenre man, the internet crowds tried to find other trans connections where they could. The Wall Street Journal initially reported on Thursday that the sockets found on the scene were somehow “expressing the transgender and anti -fascist ideology”, citing an ATF bulletin. And while the newspaper published the article later in the day to say that such a complaint should be processed “with prudence”, the damage has been caused. It turned out that there was nothing on the sockets that mentioned the Trans community.

It has become so ridiculous that the onion even wrote an article jokingly about how the suspect once had a Uber driver who was trans. But online right -wing political agents are always obsessed with the idea that trans people are only dangerous. FBI director Kash Patel was asked if Robinson’s roommate was trans and in touch with Robinson. Patel, which has a history of propagation of conspiracy theories on Qanon and the January 6 insurrection, said that it was true without providing any evidence.

There are still many unexplained questions

It is easy to understand why conspiracy theories proliferate. Whenever a case takes place, there are perfectly reasonable questions about the facts that are not known.

There are countless questions on a reason for the Kirk shooting and the potential political affiliation of the suspect. And it seems guaranteed that disinformation and disinformation will continue to compensate for social networks as we learn more. Unfortunately, guys like Kash Patel do not help the situation as they rush to publish on X before all the facts are really known.

Patel wrote the day Kirk was killed that, “The subject of the horrible shooting today who took the life of Charlie Kirk is now in detention. “But it was prematurely.

An earlier version of this article refers to the WWE Sean Morley wrestler by his stage name, Val Venis. Gizmodo regrets the error.