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At his Friday morning press conference on the killing of Charlie Kirk, Utah Gov. Spencer Cox made an emotional digression about the horrific footage of Kirk being shot. “Social media is a cancer on our society,” the Republican told reporters. “We have not evolved in a way that we are capable of processing those types of violent imagery. It is not good for us. It is not good to consume.”

He was talking about Kirk, but also about the Aug. 22 death of Iryna Zarutska, whose killing on a light rail train in Charlotte, North Carolina, was captured by surveillance cameras. That footage, which was released on Sept. 5, went megaviral on the right-wing internet last weekend

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