The suspected CEO killer’s fan base on social media is growing

The suspected CEO killer’s fan base on social media is growing

Hours after Luigi Mangione was taken into custody as the suspected killer of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, he is seeing a dramatic increase in followers on his social media accounts.


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  • Hours after Luigi Mangione was taken into custody as the suspected killer of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, he is seeing a dramatic increase in followers on his social media accounts
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  • “Free him” is also trending on X-Monday, with tens of thousands of posts calling for Mangione’s release and reposting photos from his social media accounts
  • Earlier in the day, Mangione was arrested on weapons charges at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania, where police said he had a handwritten manifesto criticizing health insurance policies and a ghost gun that matched the gun he brought with him last week was used to assassinate the CEO outside a Hilton Hotel in Manhattan


On On Instagram, where an account that appears to belong to him has only 10 posts, his following had grown to at least 65,000 as of 4:35 p.m., but the account was deleted at 5:20 p.m

Earlier in the day, Mangione was arrested on weapons charges at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania, where police said he had a handwritten manifesto criticizing health insurance policies and a ghost gun that matched the gun he brought with him last week was used to assassinate the CEO outside a Hilton hotel in Manhattan.

“Free him” also trended on X-Monday, with tens of thousands of posts calling for Mangione’s release and reposting photos from his social media accounts.

“He’s too pretty for prison. Free him,” one user wrote with a screenshot of a shirtless Mangione hiking in Hawaii. “He’s hot, smart and anti-capitalist, now free him immediately,” wrote another.

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