The world is still reeling from the September 10 murder of Charlie Kirk, with the widowed Erika Kirk promising her cries will "echo around this world like a battle cry."
Kirk was gunned down in the middle of discussing gun violence at Utah Valley University, with Tyler Robinson currently standing trial, accused of the right-wing commentator's murder.
There was initial confusion about what happened to Charlie Kirk, leaving it to President Donald Trump to announce his death.
Controversy has swirled since, and alongside the outspoken Candace Owens seeming to suggest it was an inside job, Jimmy Kimmel was famously taken off the air for mocking the situation, and others have lost their jobs.
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Despite one judge ruling in favor of a professor who branded Kirk a 'nazi', not everyone has been that lucky. Just hours after Kirk was killed, a website called Expose Charlie’s Murderers was launched, vowing to name and shame anyone who spoke out against him in the "largest firing operation in history."
Supporters were asked to donate to "a highly sophisticated enterprise system that will be impervious to Leftist attacks,” pointing them to cryptocurrency blockchains to hand over their hard-earned cash.
Raising an impressive $30,000 between September 12 and 14, the anonymous developers made it big before www.charliesmurderers.com went dark.
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Drop Site explains how Expose Charlie’s Murderers siphoned cryptocurrency from donors, all while promising it would expose the names and addresses of some 60,000 people who were “supporting political violence online."
It's said that around 190 payments were made to the six crypto addresses listed on the site, but they quickly disappeared before reappearing in another form as the Charlie Kirk Data Foundation on September 14.
Domain registrar Epik LLC deplatformed this site because it was apparently registered using false information and was plagued by DDoS attack threats. A third website was also taken down, before Expose Charlie's Murders disappeared from X on September 23.
Drop Site's request for comment has gone unanswered, while those who donated are unsure if they'll get their donations back or see any movement on what they donated for.
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Taking their rage to X, one person fumed: "I want my donation back!"
Another added: "Damn you ran that grift well. How much did you make?🤔🙄😉."
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A third said: "Just be real - you're exploiting Charlie’s death for followers and profit on X."
Someone else mocked those who fell for the apparent scam as they concluded: "These guys made a big deal out of establishing a permanent public repository of those who celebrated political murder, but now haven't posted in weeks and their website is gone. The levels of organizational incapacity and goldfish attention span on the right is truly astounding."
It seems that the site was legitimate at some point, as just hours after Kirk was assassinated, it listed nine people and their locations, with one calling Kirk a 'throbbing hemorrhoid'.
Drop Site spoke to Alex Wilson, a California researcher who was doxxed on ECM. After being alerted to the fact she'd been posted on a "far-right doxxing site," Wilson was inundated with threats of rape and murder, forcing her to make her account private. She bought a service to scrub personal data from the web, but says she still felt scared to go outside.
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Still, her work stood by her, and she condemns the doxxing: "I don’t think that Charlie Kirk’s death was a win for anyone. And in that way, I was not celebrating. I also cannot and will not be compelled to feel grief or sorrow for that person."