{"id":962734,"date":"2025-09-19T08:15:46","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T02:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=962734"},"modified":"2025-09-19T08:22:39","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T02:52:39","slug":"social-platforms-duck-blame-for-inflaming-divisions-before-charlie-kirks-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/19\/social-platforms-duck-blame-for-inflaming-divisions-before-charlie-kirks-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Social platforms duck blame for inflaming divisions before Charlie Kirk&#8217;s death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After conservative activist Charlie Kirk was fatally shot at a university rally in Utah last week, Spencer Cox, the state&#8217;s Republican governor, called social media companies a &#8220;cancer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., blamed the internet for &#8220;driving extremism in our country.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump, who helped found the Truth Social platform, also pointed fingers at social media Monday and said the accused gunman had become &#8220;radicalised on the internet.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After conservative activist Charlie Kirk was fatally shot at a university rally in Utah last week, Spencer Cox, the state&#8217;s Republican governor, called social media companies a &#8220;cancer.&#8221; Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., blamed the internet for &#8220;driving extremism in our country.&#8221; President Donald Trump, who helped found the Truth Social platform, also pointed fingers at social media Monday and said the accused gunman had become &#8220;radicalised on the internet.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-962734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=962734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=962734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=962734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=962734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}