Australia’s eSafety watchdog has asked social media companies to do more to guard children from seeing graphic footage of rightwing activist Charlie Kirk being shot dead.

Kirk, an ally to US president Donald Trump, was killed while speaking on a university campus in Utah on Thursday.

The shocking incident was filmed from various angles and published by multiple people on platforms including TikTok, X (Twitter), and Meta’s Facebook and Instagram.

Hundreds of people were at the event, many of them filming the whole debate, including the moment Kirk – who was talking about gun violence at the time – was shot.

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In some cases the clips have been published and circulated without any graphic content warning, and in others with inadequate blurring or a censor

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