Samuel Carter’s Substack detailing how the media outlet Jezebel published a piece about purchasing “curses” against political figure Charlie Kirk from sellers on Etsy just before Kirk’s assassination. The investigation argues that Jezebel’s action was reckless, noting the outlet later edited and removed the article after the shooting. The author points out that these “metaphysical services” explicitly violate Etsy’s rules against spellcasting, suggesting a failure in platform enforcement. The article concludes by calling for platform accountability from Etsy and better media standards from publishers to prevent the normalization of personalized malice and targeted hate-bait content.

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