Again, I normally wouldn’t do this, but a few details made me think it’s legit.
The Washington Post reported that Tyler Robinson, the man accused of assassinating Charlie Kirk, allegedly confessed in a Discord chat.
“Hey guys, I have bad news for you all,” said a message from an account belonging to the suspect, Tyler Robinson, on the online platform Discord. “It was me at UVU yesterday. im sorry for all of this.”The message was sent Thursday night, about two hours before officials said Robinson was taken into custody.A member of the group chat shared an image of the conversation with The Post and confirmed that it came from Robinson’s account. The person spoke on the condition of anonymity to protect their privacy and out of fear of harassment.Discord provided a copy of the message with the confession to authorities, according to a person familiar with the company’s interaction with law enforcement. The person spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly discuss details of the investigation.The message was sent from Robinson’s account to a small private group of online friends, the person said. Discord is working closely with the FBI and local authorities, providing information about Robinson’s online activities on the platform, the person added.
Robinson allegedly didn’t say anything until the next day:
The only response from Robinson’s account came the next day with the message announcing “bad news.”“im surrendering through a sheriff friend in a few moments,” the message, posted at 7:57 p.m. local time in Utah, continued. “thanks for all the good times and laughs, you’ve all been so amazing, thank you all for everything.”
The group contained a small group of online friends, according to the person who supplied the chats.
The person also confirmed that Discord has started working with law enforcement about Robinson’s activities.
However…it didn’t take long for Discord to tell everyone “that an internal investigation found ‘no evidence that the suspect planned this incident or promoted violence on Discord.’”
Weird!!
One problem with the WaPo report, though.
Did anyone say anything after Tyler allegedly confessed? I read through the article again and could not find anything else said in the chat.
The chat showed people reacting to Kirk’s assassination but nothing about the alleged confession.
Despite that problem, why do I feel it’s okay to write about this?
Let’s go back to September 13 regarding another Discord chat.
The New York Times received copies of a Discord group chat with Robinson from someone who knew him in school and a member of the group chat:
Tagging Mr. Robinson’s username on Discord, a messaging platform, the acquaintance attached the images and wrote “wya” — where you at? — with a skull emoji, suggesting that Mr. Robinson, 22, looked like the man being sought.Mr. Robinson replied within a minute. His “doppelganger,” he wrote, was trying to “get me in trouble.”“Tyler killed Charlie!!!!” another user wrote, apparently in jest.That was on Thursday afternoon, around 1 p.m. local time. It was not until later that night, nearly 34 hours after the shooting, that Mr. Robinson was arrested on suspicion of carrying out the assassination of Mr. Kirk, 31, a conservative pundit whose killing has inflamed the political world.
Then, this morning, FBI Kash Patel made an interesting comment about group chats on FOX News.
The anchor asked Patel about numerous group chats and what the agency has learned from those discussions.
Patel said the agents couldn’t just dive into the chats because they needed warrants due to the legal process. But he confirmed group chats exist.
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