What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - You Can't Escape the Charlie Kirk Video
What Next | Daily News and Analysis
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4.3 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 12 September 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Graphic, violent videos like the shooting of right-wing pundit Charlie Kirk circulate across social media moments after they happen, finding an audience even among people who have made no effort to seek them out.
Guest: Craig Silverman, journalist and cofounder of Indicator.
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| 0:00.0 | Ah, Benny's parents, thanks for coming. |
| 0:02.3 | Hiya. |
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| 0:26.7 | Things people love. T's and Cs apply, excludes vehicles. |
| 0:30.8 | Abby's just woken up. It's 7.31 and she's forgotten to ring the doctor. |
| 0:35.1 | There's no point ringing now. She needs to get to work. |
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| 1:00.0 | Apply with £100,000 annual income or £100,000 savings or investments with HSBC UK or Premier Status Abroad. |
| 1:03.1 | A quick heads up before we get started today. |
| 1:05.9 | We are talking about the shooting of Charlie Kirk. |
| 1:07.7 | Please take care while listening. |
| 1:12.3 | In addition, this is a fast-moving news story. So it's possible that some things may have changed by the time you listen. Okay, here's the show. |
| 1:21.7 | I'm really sorry to start out our interview this way, but I wonder if you could describe for me when and how you came across the video of Charlie Kirk being shot. |
| 1:36.4 | Yes. So I had seen, I first learned of him being shot on X and had sort of been scrolling and looking and |
| 1:48.0 | really didn't want to see the video. |
| 1:52.4 | That's Craig Silverman. |
| 1:54.0 | He's a longtime internet reporter who now runs indicator media. |
| 1:57.8 | I consider him one of the smartest people around when it comes to understanding |
| 2:01.9 | our digital ecosystems. And one of the people I follow is Britt Hume, who is a long time, |
| 2:08.8 | you know, host and commentator with Fox News. And he had quote tweeted something. And that came to the |
| 2:16.8 | top of my feed. I looked at what he wrote and underneath |
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