India, Sept. 12 -- Stand-up comedian Rahul Pandya is facing boycott calls on social media with allegations that he mocked the assassination of pro-right activist and influencer Charlie Kirk.

A video of Pandya, a US-based comedian, making a joke about an "assassination pulled off successfully" is going viral, with people claiming he was talking about Kirk's shooting at a university in Utah.

However, several posts making these claims have been fact-checked by a community of X users, and by Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok.

In December 2024, after UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was assassinated, stand-up comedian Rahul Pandya released a video making a joke about the incident.

"Regardless of how you feel about the CEO killing, I think we ...