After the world was struck by the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk in the heart of Utah’s “Happy Valley,” the state’s governor told the nation to go touch grass.

His point was that what you experience online is not reality.

What makes Kirk’s murder different from the political assassinations of the 1960s is that within seconds of it taking place, millions around the world were able to watch the gruesome scene on social media.

Over and over and over if they wanted.

Yes, it was real that Kirk was murdered, but what Cox emphasized was that viewing it on social media and then casually swiping to the next video is not how humans are meant to process information, especially something this vicious.

“Social media is a cancer on our society right now,” he said.

While so

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