The Problem Is Donald Trump, Not Social Media Or Lonely White Men– www.politicususa.com Source Link Excerpt:
After a white conservative was shot, many of the prominent white people in politics and media rushed to blame a variety of excuses when they found out that the shooter was a white young man from a Republican family.
Republican Gov. Spencer Cox of Utah, where Kirk was killed, thinks that the problem is social media.
Cox has become a media darling by criticizing the platform that made traditional media increasingly irrelevant.
Gov. Cox said on Sunday:
I believe that social media has played a direct role in every single assassination and assassination attempt that we have seen over the last five, six years. There is no question in my mind — ‘cancer’ probably isn’t a strong enough word. What we have done, especially to our kids, it took us decades to realize how evil these algorithms are.
Cox isn’t totally wrong. Studies have shown that social media is bad for mental health and that the mental health of individuals improves when they stop consuming social media.
