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Visits to Gore Sites Driven by Searches for Graphic Footage of Charlie Kirk’s Death
December 31, 2025
By Human Digital Introduction Across the 10th and 11th September 2025, people seeking footage of the shooting of Charlie Kirk triggered a 110% increase in total visitor numbers to 21 gore sites (Figure 1). As detailed in Human Digital’s VOX-Pol report, Gore & Violent Extremism, those visitors will have been exposed to videos involving graphic ...
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Short-Form Violent Content and Pathways to Fringe Gore
November 26, 2025
By Ryan Ratnam Introduction Earlier this year, numerous Instagram users took to scrolling through the Reels function of the platform as usual, only to be met with extremely violent and graphic content, ranging from animal abuse to human murder. Meta apologised, saying there had been an algorithmic error which had now been rectified. However, this ...