She posted about Charlie Kirk’s death. Within eight hours, she was fired

Xinyue Chen for NPR

Scrolling through social media during a work break, Alexandra realized she was going to lose her new job.

An X account with over 500,000 followers had reposted a screenshot of a Facebook post she’d made about slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

“You log onto Twitter and you see half a million people following a page, including Elon Musk. They’re saying, you better fire this person,” said Alexandra. “I knew that they were going to fire me because of the pressure by the mob.”

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