Tech Companies Distance Themselves From Far-Left Smear Factory Under Pressure After Charlie Kirk Assassination
24th October 2025
Major tech companies are distancing themselves from the Southern Poverty Law Center, a leftist group that demonizes conservatives and Christians, after facing pressure over previous relationships with the SPLC in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination.
Kirk’s alleged murderer said he killed the Turning Point USA founder because he “spreads too much hate.” The assassination took place two months after the SPLC put Turning Point USA on a “hate map” with chapters of the Ku Klux Klan—a “hate map” that had inspired a terrorist attack in 2012. The SPLC condemned the assassination, but kept Turning Point on the map.
Earlier this month, shareholders filed proposals at major companies, urging them to investigate whether the companies have used politicized tools like the SPLC’s “hate map.” Conservative groups also sent a letter to Benevity, which connects nonprofits to major corporations, urging it to stop using the SPLC “hate map.”