Governor Spencer Cox says social media has ‘played a direct role in every single assassination and assassination attempt’ in recent years.

Utah Governor Spencer Cox has issued a stark warning about the dangers of social media, telling NBC’s Meet the Press that it has played a “direct role” in recent political violence and that “cancer probably isn’t a strong enough word” to describe its impact.

This comes in the wake of the political assassination of Charlie Kirk .

In an interview with host Kristen Welker, Governor Cox linked the rise in political assassination and attempts to the “addictive” nature of social media algorithms. “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,

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