A pro-MAGA website that claimed it would expose and identify critics of right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk has mysteriously vanished after collecting tens of thousands of dollars in cryptocurrency—leaving furious donors demanding answers.
The site, called Expose Charlie’s Murderers, appeared online just hours after Kirk was assassinated during an event at Utah Valley University in September. It encouraged supporters to contribute funds to create what it described as “the largest firing operation in history”—a searchable online database listing the names and workplaces of those who had spoken negatively about Kirk.
According to Drop Site, which reviewed the since-deleted project, the website hosted six cryptocurrency wallets and raised more than $30,000 between September 12 and 14. Shortly after collecting the funds, however, the site repeatedly went offline—resurfacing under a new name, the Charlie Kirk Data Foundation, before disappearing entirely once again.
The anonymous operators behind the effort, who called themselves “Anon Palantir,” managed to post only 41 entries—screenshots of social media posts mocking or criticizing Kirk—before the project collapsed. Donors, many of them MAGA supporters, quickly turned on the organizers.
“I want my donation back!” one enraged user posted on X. Others accused the site’s creators of being “scammers” and “liars,” claiming they were duped into funding a fraudulent campaign.
Meanwhile, several of the individuals targeted by the project reported being harassed and threatened after their information was shared. In Oregon, a school board chair who wrote online that she “would not mourn” Kirk said she was bombarded with abuse and even received workplace complaints, eventually resigning from her position on October 7. She described the experience to Drop News as “terrifying and awful.”
Kirk, a 31-year-old conservative activist and founder of Turning Point USA, was shot and killed on September 10 while speaking at a university event. His death triggered an intense wave of grief, conspiracy theories, and outrage among right-wing circles online.
The creators of Expose Charlie’s Murderers appeared to exploit that emotion for profit. They claimed the site had received over 63,000 submissions, though only a handful of profiles were ever published. Investigators later found the site’s domains were registered through Namecheap and later Epik, both of which dropped the registrations due to false contact information and ongoing DDoS attacks.
A third domain—linked to someone named “Franklin Hurd” at a Spokane, Washington office building—also went offline soon after. Neither the site’s administrators nor any of the listed contacts responded to media inquiries about what happened to the money.
Authorities have since urged the public to remain calm as the investigation into Kirk’s killing continues, warning against vigilante-style exposure campaigns that could endanger innocent people and obstruct law enforcement efforts.