Social platforms duck blame for inflaming divisions before Charlie Kirk’s death

After conservative activist Charlie Kirk was fatally shot at a university rally in Utah last week, Spencer Cox, the state’s Republican governor, called social media companies a “cancer.”

Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., blamed the internet for “driving extremism in our country.”

President Donald Trump, who helped found the Truth Social platform, also pointed fingers at social media Monday and said the accused gunman had become “radicalised on the internet.”