Karen Attiah , a columnist for The Washington Post who also served as global opinions editor, wrote that she was fired by the publication over her social media posts in the aftermath of the assassination of Charlie Kirk .

Attiah posted a Substack column on Monday in which she wrote that Post bosses “accused my measured Bluesky posts of being ‘unacceptable,’ ‘gross misconduct’ and of endangering the physical safety of colleagues — charges without evidence, which I reject completely as false.”

“They rushed to fire me without even a conversation,” she wrote. “This was not only a hasty overreach, but a violation of the very standards of journalistic fairness and rigor the Post claims to uphold.”

In her Substack column, Attiah included screenshots of some of her social media posts, in

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