Utah Governor Spencer Cox blamed social-media companies for helping foment divisiveness that led to the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, calling them “conflict entrepreneurs” that profit from political polarization.

Cox, who has called on Americans to de-escalate the strife since Kirk was fatally shot at a Utah Valley University event last week, took aim at tech companies that he accused of getting Americans “to hate each other.”

“I can’t emphasize enough the damage that social media and the internet is doing to all of us,” Cox said Sunday in comments to NBC’s Meet the Press. “These companies — trillion-dollar market caps, the most powerful companies in the history of the world — have figured out how to hack our brains.” He didn’t name any specific platforms.

Kirk, 31, the

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