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Rockstar has pulled a fan-made ngo successful Grand Theft Auto Online designed to replicate the real-life assassination of Charlie Kirk.
Variety reports that a user-created level named "We Are Charlie Kirk" was precocious pulled from the game, and that Rockstar has present added "Charlie Kirk" to its database of banned words — meaning that players volition nary longer spot missions labelled with his name.
It's unclear however rapidly Rockstar acted to region the mission, though footage of it was uploaded to YouTube that's present implicit a period old. Rockstar added the quality for players to make and people their ain in-game missions arsenic portion of the A Safehouse successful the Hills update that launched connected December 10 — meaning this contented was made wrong a time oregon 2 of the mode going live.
Today, IGN has seen that footage of "We Are Charlie Kirk" ngo inactive exists connected YouTube, wherever we person spotted akin footage of astatine slightest 1 different fan-made GTA Online Charlie Kirk assassination level that existed astatine 1 point, too.
Both missions diagnostic akin gameplay, wherever the subordinate takes connected the relation of Charlie Kirk's murderer. Completing each ngo requires the subordinate assassinate Kirk astatine agelong scope from a adjacent rooftop, with the levels' layouts acquainted to anyone with cognition of the killing.
Kirk's decease successful September 2025 sent shockwaves done America, and raised governmental tensions ever higher. In the aftermath of the right-wing governmental activist's murder, chat amusement big Jimmy Kimmel was concisely suspended by ABC — lone to beryllium brought backmost pursuing nationalist pressure. The CEOs of online platforms specified arsenic Discord, Steam, Twitch and reddit were besides called earlier a U.S. House committee to attest astatine proceeding connected the "radicalization of online forum users."
Rockstar has not yet commented connected its removal of Charlie Kirk-related contented from GTA Online, though it appears to person an uphill conflict connected its hands to region akin missions appearing successful future. A speedy cheque of the game's ngo directory shows different examples exist, including "Charlie Kirk assassination" (written successful Korean and seemingly created by a South Korean player) that inactive appears erstwhile you hunt successful English for "Kirk." A translated statement of the ngo reads: "Kill Charlie Kirk to summation wealth and fame."
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