Foreign Influencers and Bot-Empowered Accounts Spread Antisemitic Conspiracies About Charlie Kirk's Murder
Key accounts promote conspiracy theories linking Israel to Charlie Kirk's death—including foreign and domestic influencers previously identified as bot-driven amplifiers within influence networks
A Jewish Onliner social media analysis has identified key accounts promoting conspiracy theories claiming Israel was involved in Charlie Kirk's death. These influencers include both foreign actors and domestic accounts that have been previously documented by disinformation research firms as bot-empowered amplifiers operating within influence networks, with several major reports exposing the artificial nature of their online engagement.
Accounts including Jackson Hinkle and Jake Shields—American influencers with significant bot amplification—alongside foreign actors Dr. Anastasia Maria Loupis (Denmark) Syrian Girl (Maram Susli, Australia), and AdameMedia (UK) were among the top promoters of conspiracy theories falsely linking Israel to Kirk's death. This represents a continuation of disinformation campaigns these digitally-amplified influencers have participated in since October 2023.
Jewish Onliner's analysis of these accounts' posts promoting the conspiracy theories of Israel’s involvement in Kirk’s murder revealed massive reach and engagement numbers. Hinkle's posts achieved an approximate reach of 188.6 million with 3.6 million reach per mention, generating 1.6 million total engagements and 31.2k engagement per mention. Syrian Girl's posts reached 18.7 million users with 520.6k reach per mention, accumulating 253.8k total engagements and 7.1k engagement per mention.
Jewish Onliner had previously conducted an analysis directly following Kirk's death, identifying many of these same accounts as key spreaders of disinformation, with the current Israel-related conspiracy theories representing a continuation of these documented artificial amplification patterns.
Established Patterns of Inauthentic Engagement
Two major reports exposed the artificial nature of engagement surrounding these controversial influencers. A 2024 study by Cyabra, a leading disinformation detection firm, found that an average of 25% of users interacting with popular anti-Israel influencers on platform X are fake accounts, with a quarter of these fraudulent profiles created after October 7, 2023.
The Cyabra analysis revealed particularly striking statistics for Jackson Hinkle, whose account showed that 40.5% of his followers are fake accounts, many established since October 2023. Additionally, 17% of the profiles commenting on Hinkle's posts were identified as inauthentic. The report documented Hinkle's unusual rise to prominence in October 2023, when his follower count dramatically increased from 417,000 to 2 million within just one month—growth largely attributed to artificial amplification.
Dr. Anastasia Maria Loupis, a physician from Copenhagen, Denmark, who regularly promotes antisemitic narratives, was also flagged in the Cyabra report as a bot-supported influencer. The analysis found that 18% of profiles commenting on her posts were fake accounts displaying coordinated behaviors and mutual amplification strategies.
Foreign-Backed Digital Influence Operations
A separate 2025 report by the Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI), a non-profit that investigates malicious narratives and inauthentic conduct, titled "False Flags and Fake MAGA," provides additional context about several of these same digitally-enhanced accounts. The NCRI study identified Jackson Hinkle and Jake Shields as key domestic figures who amplify Kremlin-seeded and Iranian state-linked narratives within American conservative online spaces.
The NCRI report characterized these figures as "marginal actors on the fringe of the MAGA movement" who "reframe state-directed content into culture war engagement." According to their analysis, Hinkle ranks as the third-largest amplifier of "false flag" narratives on X, with a potential reach of 11.9 million users and generating over 120,000 engagements through bot-assisted distribution.
Jake Shields was similarly identified as a synthetically-boosted amplifier of foreign-originated conspiracy narratives, with the NCRI documenting how these domestic influencers' content is heavily supported by "bot-like influence loops" and spam-farm networks, particularly those traceable to South Asian operations.
The NCRI report also identified AdameMedia as a key foreign-linked narrative seeder in these influence operations. Originally a UK-based vlogger with minimal political focus and around 11,000 followers, the account underwent a dramatic transformation after October 7, 2023. The report documented how AdameMedia pivoted sharply from anti-establishment content to amplifying pro-Kremlin narratives and anti-Western crisis messaging, with posting volume surging 150% and follower count ballooning to 300,000.
Additional Foreign Amplifiers of Disinformation
Syrian Girl, whose real name is Maram Susli, represents a foreign node in these algorithmically-enhanced disinformation networks. The Australian-based influencer is recognized as an ardent pro-Assad and pro-Kremlin propagandist, consistently promoting content aligned with Russian and Syrian government interests. According to a 2024 report by the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT), Susli has been identified as a participant in Russian disinformation campaigns.
Systematic Influence Operations
The convergence of findings across multiple independent investigations underscores the systematic nature of these influence operations, where foreign-linked propaganda networks work in coordination with synthetically-amplified domestic influencers to spread divisive conspiracy theories and antisemitic narratives within American political discourse.
Excellent post. According to Grok, 60 percent of posts on X are due to bots, many of them state actors. Russia, China, Iran, Qatar are the leading state actors