Did Charlie Kirk's widow, Erika, or Turning Point USA file a $400 million lawsuit against investor and philanthropist George Soros over an alleged defamation campaign "to silence conservative voices and manipulate public perception"? No, that's not true: The claim originated from a satirical page that said explicitly that nothing it publishes is real. As of October 16, 2025, no credible sources suggested that the lawsuit was indeed filed.
The story appeared in a post (archived here) on X where it was published on October 15, 2025. It opened:
Erika Kirk and Turning Point USA are suing George Soros for $400 million over an alleged online slander campaign targeting Charlie Kirk. They're accusing Soros-funded networks of orchestrating a smear operation to silence conservative voices and manipulate public perception. The tide is turning. The people who thought they could attack Patriots without consequence are finally being exposed. Justice is coming.
This is what the post looked like on X at the time of writing:
(Image source: Lead Stories screenshot of post at x.com/17QStorm)
The claim, however, originated from a satirical source: America's Last Line of Defense that published (archived here) it on its page on Facebook one day earlier, on October 14, 2025. The page's description (archived here) reads:
The flagship of the ALLOD network of trollery and propaganda for cash.
Nothing on this page is real.
The page on Facebook is part of the "America's Last Line of Defense" network of satire websites run by self-professed liberal troll Christopher Blair from Maine in association with a loose confederation of friends and allies. Those websites and Facebook pages display visible satire disclaimers everywhere and mostly publish made-up stories with headlines specifically created to trigger Republicans, conservatives and evangelical Christians into angrily sharing or commenting on the story on social media without actually reading the full article, exposing them to mockery and ridicule by fans of the sites and pages.
Every site in the network has an about page that reads (in part):
About Satire
Before you complain and decide satire is synonymous with "comedy":sat·ire
ˈsaˌtī(ə)r
noun
The use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues.Everything on this website is fiction. It is not a lie and it is not fake news because it is not real. If you believe that it is real, you should have your head examined. Any similarities between this site's pure fantasy and actual people, places, and events are purely coincidental and all images should be considered altered and satirical. See above if you're still having an issue with that satire thing.
Articles from Blair's sites frequently get copied by "real" fake news sites that omit the satire disclaimer and other hints that the stories are fake. One of the most persistent networks of such sites is run by a man from Pakistan named Kashif Shahzad Khokhar, also known as "DashiKashi" (archived here), who has spammed hundreds of such stolen stories into conservative and right-wing Facebook pages in order to profit from the ad revenue.
As of this writing, no reputable sources reported that the story about Erika Kirk's supposed defamation lawsuit against George Soros was real. Searches on Google News for the keywords seen here (archived here) and here (archived here) and Yahoo News (archived here) yielded no such results.
Had the rumor been true, there would have been official court documents confirming it. However, searches across the Public Access to Court Electronic Records portal (PACER) did not show any recent lawsuits against Soros that wouldn't predate Charlie Kirk's death (archived here) on September 10, 2025:
(Image source: Lead Stories screenshot of PACER)
A broad search for the names of Erika Kirk and Soros on Google Scholar's case law (archived here) yielded no lawsuits, either:
(Image source: Lead Stories screenshot of Google Scholar)
Last but not least, the purported lawsuit was not mentioned on Erika Kirk's account on Instagram, the press release (archived here) or news (archived here) sections on the Turning Point USA website or on its social media pages on Facebook (archived here), X (archived here) and Instagram.
