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As of 3:39PM ET, CNN is reporting shot and Wikipedia has already a death date.

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Their source is Donald Trump: https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/1151819349918...

Trump "tweeted" that Kirk is dead on truth social

I strongly disagree with Charlie Kirk, but doctors pronounce him dead, not the media or Wikipedia.

Edit: it's official, he's dead (it wasn't confirmed when I originally posted this). Condolences to his wife and small kids.

I'm not seeing that death date. And history shows that even traditional news outlets can be badly wrong in the immediate aftermath of a shooting. James Brady didn't die in 1981 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Brady#Shooting - even with "all major media outlets" (per Wikipedia) saying that he did.

Kirk's wikipedia page is currently abuzz with edits and reversions of those edits, many of which are pronouncing him dead.

I'm convinced there are people whose first thought when someone dies is to race to update Wikipedia for some definition of clout.

I find it weird, at best.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiJackal

Makes sense!

TIL there's a term for this! I've always been quite troubled by this propensity some people have to be the first to report the death of someone famous.

Watching the video of his shooting may change your perspective. I don't advise you do, though I'll absolutely confirm it would be miraculous to come back from something like what the video shows.

It was an absolutely brutal video to watch. I agree. Even with the absolute best field first aid, EMS and surgical response, arterial bleeding I think has a 60% survival rate? Again, if everything goes perfectly, timed perfectly etc.

>I'm not seeing that death date.

Browsers don't show the page updating, easy to imagine that it's flickering on and off several times a minute at this point.

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