Utah Governor Spencer Cox said that social media has played a “direct role” in fuelling political violence in the US, as the country grapples with the fatal shooting of conservative activist Charlie Kirk at a college in the state last week.
“I believe that social media has played a direct role in every single assassination and assassination attempt that we have seen over the last five, six years,” Cox said on Sunday.
Cox, a Republican, has spoken out strongly against social media companies in the wake of the killing and has likened the addictive nature of their algorithms to drugs. “It took us a decade to realise how evil these algorithms are,” he said.
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