The Washington Post fired a longtime staff member and columnist after she posted a fake Charlie Kirk quote and other inflammatory rhetoric just hours after the conservative activist’s assassination.

On Monday, columnist Karen Attiah revealed that she had been fired by the Washington Post the week before. In a Substack post, she claimed she was fired for having “spoke out against hatred and violence in America.” However, she then admitted that the exact reason for her firing was her social media posts on Bluesky, including a bigoted, fake quote attributed to Kirk, just hours after his assassination.