Andrew Selepak Comments on Social Media Posts Following Activist Charlie Kirk’s Death

Andrew Selepak, University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Media Production, Management, and Technology associate instructional professor, was quoted in “Some Call for Calm as ‘Noisy and Angry’ Social Media Reacts to Charlie Kirk’s Killing” posted on thenationalnewsdesk.com on Sept. 12, 2025.

Selepak said that it was horrible, though not shocking, that some social media users celebrated the death of Charlie Kirk, simply because they disagreed with his political views.

“One of the problems I think that social media companies have now is they’ve just gotten too big,” Selepak said. “Something like Facebook, with three billion users, an event like this, especially an American event of a prominent figure, it’s kind of hard to get all of it taken down. Then you add the fact that some of these companies have cut down on their moderators, trying to use AI instead.”

Selepak said we may be “hitting an inflection point in society” with social media.

“And what do we really want to be consuming on social media? And just how great is the damage for not just young people, in this case, but all of us to become desensitized to something like this?” he said.

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