Did Charlie Kirk's widow, Erika, go on social media to announce that she and her husband's organization, Turning Point USA, started a new dating app and that she joined it even before the memorial service for her husband? No, none of that is true: The image used to prove the existence of such a post originated from a subreddit, not from Erika Kirk's accounts on social media. As of this writing, the purported Christian dating app could not be found on the App Store.
The claim appeared in a post (archived here) published on Facebook on September 24, 2025. It shared an image purporting to show a screenshot of Erika Kirk's post on social media that read:
After losing Charlie last week, I wasn't sure how to move forward. But God put a new mission in my heart: helping young Christians find one another. That's why I'm proud to introduce Faith & Fellowship, our new dating app. Yes, I'm on it too!
This is what the picture looked like on Facebook at the time of writing:
(Source: Facebook screenshot taken on Thu Sep 25 15:23:40 2025 UTC)
The image showed a specific publication date: September 17, 2025. However, reverse image searches did not produce any matches uploaded online earlier than September 22, 2025, when the same picture appeared (archived here) on Reddit, not on Erika Kirk's account.
The higher-quality version of the 'screenshot' revealed clear evidence that it wasn't an authentic post: The "follow" button from the image contained the attribution, which became more apparent after the picture had been flipped vertically and horizontally:
(Image source: Lead Stories screenshot of post at reddit.com/r/TOTALLYREALTWEETS)
No real social media posts display user or group names on such graphic elements as follow buttons.
The Totallyrealtweets where the image in question was initially published is a subreddit that described (archived here) itself as:
a very serious subreddit for screenshots of completely authentic tweets that are 100% really real.
The bio line (archived here) of the account that added the image to the subreddit elaborated further:
Dipshit fake tweet writer for r/totallyrealtweets.
As of this writing, Erika Kirk's account on X did not display any posts published between September 10 and September 21, 2025, the period between her husband's death and the memorial service (archived here):
(Image source: Lead Stories screenshot of posts at x.com/mrserikakirk)
Lead Stories manually reviewed posts by Erika Kirk on Instagram, but none of those published after September 10, 2025, showed the logo of the purported dating app or mentioned its creation:
(Image source: Lead Stories screenshot of posts at instagram.com/mrserikakirk)
Searches on Google News (archived here) and Yahoo News (archived here) didn't yield news reports confirming the claim reviewed in this fact check.
As of this writing, no dating apps on the App Store matched the name of the purported startup:
(Image source: Lead Stories screenshots of the App Store)
