Why these senators from opposing parties believe the fight to end political violence starts at the site of Charlie Kirk’s assassination

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Sens. John Curtis and Mark Kelly announced the Algorithm Accountability Act.

Bill would make social media platforms liable for harmful content in algorithms.

Curtis said it will likely be opposed by Big Tech and controversial influencers.

Two months after the assassination of Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University, Utah Sen. John Curtis and Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly sat down on the other side of campus to confront the nation’s epidemic of political violence and to chart a course toward potential solutions.

The senators spoke at a public event on Wednesday, hosted by UVU’s Gary R. Herbert Institute for Public Policy and moderated by CNN political correspondent Dana Bash, in an attempt to build something positive from the tragedy of Sept. 10, when a gunman shot Kirk before thou