In the week since Charlie Kirk’s assassination, Russia, Iran and China have spread thousands of false or incendiary claims about what happened to the conservative activist, in an effort to stoke political divisions or to portray the United States as a dysfunctional country.

在查理·柯克遇刺后一周以来，俄罗斯、伊朗和中国围绕这位保守派活动人士的遭遇传播了数以千计的虚假或煽动性言论，试图加剧美国政治分裂，或将美国描绘成治理失效的国家。

Official state media in the three countries mentioned Mr. Kirk 6,200 times from Sept. 10 to Sept. 17, framing the killing as a conspiracy, though they differed on the nature of the plot involved, according to an analysis on Wednesday by NewsGuard, a company that tracks disinformation online.

根据追踪网络虚假信息的公司NewsGuard周三发布的分析报告，自9月10日至17日，这三个国家的官方媒体累计提及柯克6200次，将此次刺杀事件渲染为阴谋，尽管对于所涉阴谋的性质在表述上存在差异。

The findings underscored remarks made last week by Gov. Spencer Cox of Utah, where Mr. Kirk was fatally shot during an appearance on a college campus on Sept. 10.

这一发现印证了犹他州州长斯宾塞·考克斯上周的说法。柯克于9月10日在该州犹他谷大学校园演讲时遇刺身亡。

“What we are seeing is our adversaries want violence,” Mr. Cox said two days after the shooting. “We have bots from Russia, China, all over the world, that are trying to instill disinformation and encourage violence.”

“我们看到的是对手渴望暴力。来自俄罗斯、中国及世界各地的网络机器人正在传播虚假信息并煽动暴力，”考克斯在枪击事件发生两天后指出。

Foreign influence campaigns have become a recurrent backdrop to virtually any news event in the United States — from natural disasters to elections to political crises.

外国影响力行动已成为美国各类新闻事件的常见背景——从自然灾害到选举再到政治危机莫不如此。

Russia, China and Iran, especially, try to exploit events in the United States to push their own geopolitical agendas. While their narratives differ, and even contradict each other, they share a goal of undermining American democracy and its reputation globally.

俄、中、伊三国尤其热衷利用美国国内事件推动自己的地缘政治议程。尽管它们的叙事存在差异甚至相互矛盾，但它们的共同目标是削弱美国民主及其全球声誉。

Mr. Kirk’s assassination immediately generated a deluge of false claims, baseless speculation and conspiratorial thinking from domestic sources that has not yet relented. The country’s adversaries have seized the moment as well, at times amplifying the same unsubstantiated narratives.

柯克遇刺后，美国国内立即涌现大量未经证实的阴谋论，至今仍未平息。而外国对手也趁机推波助澜，有时甚至放大同样的不实言论。

The day after the killing, Russia’s English-language news channel, RT, repeated unsubstantiated claims that people near Mr. Kirk were making hand signs to cue the shooter. Law enforcement officials have said Tyler Robinson, the man charged in the killing, acted alone.

枪击事件次日，俄罗斯英文新闻频道RT重复传播“柯克身边有人通过手势向枪手发信号”的无端指控。但执法部门已明确表示，被控行凶的泰勒·罗宾逊系单独作案。

Aleksandr Dugin, a prominent ultranationalist writer in Russia, falsely claimed in subsequent days that the “Deep State” and George Soros’s Open Society Foundations were behind the killing because of Mr. Kirk’s faith and patriotic values — a theme echoed among some conservatives in the United States, as well.

俄罗斯知名极端民族主义作家亚历山大·杜金在随后几天里错误地声称，“深层政府”和乔治·索罗斯的开放社会基金会因柯克的宗教信仰和爱国价值观策划了此次谋杀——这一论调在美国部分保守派群体中也得到呼应。

“Charlie Kirk was on our side of the front line that now divides humanity,” Mr. Dugin wrote. “The civil war in the U.S.A. is not something distant.”

“在当今划分人类阵营的前线，查理·柯克站在我们这一方。美国内战并非遥不可及，”杜金写道。

Russia’s state media sought to link the assassination to the war in Ukraine, while officials and pro-Russian accounts online even suggested that Ukraine was somehow behind it. NewsGuard noted that the Russians made the same claims after the attempted assassination of President Trump during last year’s election campaign, which had no link at all to Ukraine or the war. In the past, Russia, like other adversaries, has also spread similar narratives using bot accounts posing as Americans.

俄罗斯官方媒体还试图将刺杀事件与俄乌战争挂钩，部分官员和亲俄账号甚至暗示乌克兰与此有关。NewsGuard指出，在去年特朗普遇刺未遂事件后，俄罗斯曾炮制过相同指控，但事实证明，该事件与乌克兰或俄乌战争毫无关联。过去，俄罗斯以及其他敌对国家也曾利用伪装成美国人的机器人账号散播类似叙事。

Iran claimed that Israel’s secret service carried out the killing as a way to distract Americans from the killings of Palestinians in Gaza. China, not inaccurately, portrayed the United States as a deeply divided country, but one pro-China account on X falsely stated that the shooter donated $224 to President Trump’s election campaign in 2020, according to NewsGuard.

伊朗则声称以色列情报机构摩萨德实施了此次刺杀，目的是转移美国公众对加沙地带巴勒斯坦人死亡事件的关注。中国将美国描绘成严重分裂的国家，这一点并未失实，但据NewsGuard监测，某个亲华账号在X上谎称枪手曾于2020年向特朗普竞选团队捐款224美元。