First Amendment lawsuits from Charlie Kirk posts get payouts ^14.5%

NPR - By Huo Jingnan - 6/23/2026, 9:00 AM

Negativity Bias 29.7% - Appeal to Emotion 18.3% - Appeal to Authority 15.2%

By the time Maria Ruhtenberg was fired from her job last September for posting about Charlie Kirk's assassination, few people even knew what she had written. The posts and comments she had made on Facebook were only visible to her friends. Just one person, a Facebook friend she barely knew, complained to her employer. "I don't even know... more