{"id":12789,"date":"2025-09-15T16:29:54","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T08:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tingchao.xyz\/?p=12789"},"modified":"2025-09-15T16:29:59","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T08:29:59","slug":"cox-criticizes-conflict-entrepreneurs-in-wake-of-kirks-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tingchao.xyz\/?p=12789","title":{"rendered":"Cox criticizes \u2018conflict entrepreneurs\u2019 in wake of Kirk\u2019s death"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"801\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/tingchao.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/7-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12790\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tingchao.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/7-1.jpg 801w, https:\/\/tingchao.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/7-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tingchao.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/7-1-768x431.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 801px) 100vw, 801px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Utah Gov. Spencer Cox (R) criticized technology companies as \u201cconflict entrepreneurs\u201d that have turned Americans against each other, suggesting the public needs to reclaim its agency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI can\u2019t emphasize enough the damage that social media and the internet is doing to all of us, those dopamine hits. 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, which is the same type of dopamine, the same chemical that you get from taking fentanyl, get us addicted to outrage, and get us to hate each other,\u201d Cox said in an interview on NBC News\u2019s \u201cMeet the Press.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cox, a moderate Republican, said he has seen the phenomenon play out \u201cin real time since the tragic death of Charlie Kirk\u201d and in \u201cevery corner of our society.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe conflict entrepreneurs are taking advantage of us,\u201d he continued. \u201cAnd we are losing our agency. And we have to take that back. We have to turn it off. We have to get back to community, caring about our neighbors, the things that make Americans great, serving each other, bettering ourselves, exercising, sleeping, all of those things that this takes away from us.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cox has been praised for his response to the assassination of the right-wing political activist Charlie Kirk, who was fatally shot while speaking at a college event at Utah Valley University on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kash Patel to Charlie Kirk: &#8220;We have the watch, and I&#8217;ll see you in Valhalla&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In an interview Sunday on CNN\u2019s \u201cState of the Union,\u201d Cox said that although Kirk said \u201csome very inflammatory things,\u201d he \u201calso said some other things about forgiveness.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHe said some amazing things about when things get dark, putting down our phones, reading scripture, going to church, talking to our neighbors. 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