Department of Defense “Tracking” Social Media Posts from Service Members and Civilians Celebrating the Conservative Leader’s Death

Pentagon officials are actively monitoring an alarming wave of public celebrations over the assassination of conservative leader Charlie Kirk and are weighing action against any military members or department personnel involved.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, along with multiple other military and department leaders, said the department is “tracking” celebrations of Kirk’s death among personnel and promised the issue will be “addressed immediately.”

The statements come in the wake of the assassination, which saw a torrent of left-leaning users on platforms like X, BlueSky, and TikTok openly cheering the murder, with several accounts allegedly tied to milita

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