Cox criticizes 'conflict entrepreneurs' in wake of Kirk's death

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Source: The Hill

Utah Gov. Spencer Cox (R) criticized technology companies as “conflict entrepreneurs” that have turned Americans against each other, suggesting the public needs to reclaim its agency.

“I can’t emphasize enough the damage that social media and the internet is doing to all of us, those dopamine hits. These companies, trillion dollar market caps, the most powerful companies in the history of the world have figured out to how to hack our brains, get us addicted to outrage, which is the same type of dopamine, the same chemical that you get from taking fentanyl, get us addicted to outrage, and get us to hate each other,” Cox said in an interview on NBC News’s “Meet the Press.”

Cox, a moderate Republican, said he has seen the phenomenon play out “in real time since the tragic death of Charlie Kirk” and in “every corner of our society.”
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In an interview Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Cox said that although Kirk said “some very inflammatory things,” he “also said some other things about forgiveness.”

Read more: https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5503089-cox-criticizes-conflict-entrepreneurs-charlie-kirk-death/