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How the spreadsheet placed Erika Kirk — Instagram, not flight logs

This page is the person-side of the 73-count: what the compilers used instead of Erika Kirk's flight logs. It is not a finding that she was, or was not, in any of those states. Status: Alive. Parent: Erika Kirk's flights. The logs dispute itself is Erika Flight Logs Erased.

:::caution Legal Disclaimer Nothing on this page constitutes a finding of wrongdoing by Erika Kirk. A spreadsheet cell that names a state is not proof she was there, and it is not proof she hid anything. The sheet is other people's work. :::

The column that had to do the work​

The screenshot of the source sheet, transcribed on the erased-logs page, carries these headers:

Index · Date · Flight · Route · Erika Location · Event/Reason · Overlap Window · Charlie Present · Notes

Erika Location is a free-text cell with no source column beside it. Visible values include:

New York · Illinois · Massachusetts · Kansas · Wilmington, DE · St. Louis, MO · Missouri / Maine · Georgia · Delaware / Georgia · Kansas · Wichita / DE / potentially Giza · Missouri / Cairo · Utah · Nebraska · Delaware / Nebraska · California · Delaware / Omaha · Kansas / Delaware · Utah (Provo/SLC) · Delaware / Provo · Nebraska / Delaware · Provo, Utah

Most of these are states, not places. Several are two states joined by a slash. One reads "Wichita / DE / potentially Giza" — three locations on two continents, with the word potentially inside a cell that was counted as a match.

The Notes column, on the same extract, names the sourcing:

"Instagram confirms presence; state-level overlap" · "State-level overlap; media posts confirm" · "Instagram / media confirmation" · "Instagram confirms Georgia presence" · "Instagram confirms Nebraska visit" · "California state overlap confirmed via posts"

That is the substitute for a flight log. No URL, no screenshot, no archive link, no post date.

Why a post is a weaker substitute than it sounds​

Using public social media to establish location is a legitimate OSINT method. Used this way, it fails four ways, and the sheet exposes all four:

  • A post is not a timestamp. People post from a place days after being there. Nothing in the sheet records when a post was made versus when the depicted event occurred.
  • A post is not a coordinate. "Instagram confirms Georgia presence" places a person in a state of eleven million people. Matching that against an aircraft in Atlanta is two things happening in the same state.
  • Nothing is preserved. If a post was deleted or an account made private, the cell is now uncheckable — and it was published as if it were a record.
  • It compounds with Overlap Window, which reads "±3 days" on every row. The actual rule, written out: an aircraft in the same state, inside a seven-day window, of a place a person appeared to be according to an unlinked social-media post. That rule is @Liz_Wheeler's subject on What "overlap" was defined as.

@KanekoaTheGreat, 17 December 2025, put the hole in one line:

"She has never provided verifiable evidence of where Erika actually was. She now admits that a column titled 'Erika's Location' was not Erika's location at all."

He quotes Owens saying the column people took as Erika's location was "actually saying where the planes landed on that day, because it was ±3 days." If that admission is accurate, the 73-count's person-side column was never a person-side column. That is recorded as Kanekoa's account of her words, with the broadcast record on Candace Owens broadcasts.

The Charlie Present column, which answers a different question​

On the visible 35-row extract, Charlie Present reads "No" on 32 rows and "Yes" on three. On the sheet's own data, these aircraft were overwhelmingly not being counted against Charlie Kirk. The overlap claim is, structurally, an Erika Kirk claim — which is why the absence of her logs is the missing foundation under the largest number in the case. See Tracked, not Charlie.

Counterargument​

  • Social-media geolocation is not automatically false. A dated, archived post at a named venue is evidence of presence. That is not what these cells are.
  • Erika Kirk disputed the trip dates and noted she was pregnant across several of the cited periods (press coverage). A disputed Instagram-based state match is weaker still.
  • Owners routinely post scheduled or backdated content. Treating every geo-tag as a same-day coordinate is how a ±3-day window gets built in the first place.

What we do not know​

Which Instagram URLs, dates, and captions the Notes column is pointing at. Whether the compiler still has them. Whether any cell can be rebuilt from public archives. Until those citations are published, the person half of the 73 has no documentary basis.