Stephen King Apologizes After Sharing Viral Fake Story Claiming Charlie Kirk Backed Stoning Gays: 'I Read This on Twitter Without Checking'

Stephen King faced outrage for wrongly saying Charlie Kirk backed stoning gays. He deleted the post, apologized, and later compared Kirk’s murder to JFK’s.

“He advocated stoning homosexuals. Just saying,” King wrote in response to Fox News anchor Jesse Watters, who had described Kirk as “not a controversial or divisive figure,” but rather as “a PATRIOT.”