SAN FRANCISCO >> After conservative activist Charlie Kirk was fatally shot at a university rally in Utah last week, Spencer Cox, the state’s Republican governor, called social media companies a “cancer.”

Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., blamed the internet for “driving extremism in our country.”

President Donald Trump, who helped found the Truth Social platform, also pointed fingers at social media Monday and said the accused gunman had become “radicalized on the internet.”

The response from social media companies?

Most major platforms have stayed quiet and ducked the spotlight. There has been only one notable exception: Elon Musk, the billionaire owner of the social media site X, who has spread divisive content about Kirk’s assassination by blaming the left and calling for retribution agains

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