It’s too early to pinpoint an exact motive behind the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, according to Utah Governor Spencer Cox, but the lawmaker didn’t mince words on social media’s role in generating animosity among Americans.

In an interview Sunday on NBC’s Meet the Press with Kristen Welker , Cox said friends of the suspect, Tyler Robinson, confirmed he had dived deep into “dark places of the internet.”

“I can’t emphasize enough the damage that social media and the internet is doing to all of us, those dopamine hits,” he added later. “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.”

Cox likened it to a fentanyl addiction and changes in b

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