Foreign adversaries using Kirk killing to further divide Americans: Report

Watch Foreign adversaries using Kirk killing to further divide Americans: Report - Straight Arrow News on Dailymotion

Transcript

00:00Foreign adversaries are now using the assassination of Charlie Kirk

00:04to further divide Americans, according to a report from NewsGuard.

00:12NewsGuard found most of the misinformation came from Russia, China and Iran.

00:17They found 6,200 mentions of Kirk's name across state-run media in those countries.

00:23A lot of it has been pushing anti-Western sentiment

00:26and sort of seizing on the news and the interest in the topic

00:30to push their respective geopolitical interests.

00:33Each nation had similar goals but framed it in a different way.

00:38Russia framed it against Ukraine, linking Kirk's murder to U.S. military aid for Kyiv.

00:45Several headlines in Russia even linked the killing to President Volodymyr Zelensky.

00:50Iran framed it against Israel, claiming the Israelis orchestrated the attack

00:55over Kirk's initial hesitation to military strikes on Iran.

01:00China spread false claims about accused killer Tyler Robinson to paint the U.S. as divided.

01:07A lot of the coverage we were seeing was sort of aiming to amplify

01:10a lot of the existing divisions and debates going on.

01:14NewsGuard also found this isn't the first time foreign state media

01:18has used big news stories to stoke division.

01:21With the Los Angeles protests earlier this year and the pro-Palestinian protests

01:27that broke out across U.S. college campuses last year,

01:30they similarly seized on these events to push their narratives about Ukraine or Israel

01:36or whatever enemy it is and trying to implicate them in that attack

01:41and sort of drum up support for, you know, their motive.

01:45It is important to fact-check any information you find on the Internet,

01:51especially on social media and from unknown sources.

01:55For Straight Arrow News, I'm Kara Rucker.

01:57For more unbiased, fact-driven news, download the Straight Arrow News mobile app today.