""I believe that social media has played a direct role in every single assassination and assassination attempt we've seen over the last five, six years. There is no question in my mind," Cox told NBC News' 'Meet the Press' on Sunday. "Cancer probably isn't a strong enough word. What we have done to our kids. It has taken us a decade to understand how evil these algorithms really are.""
""I can't emphasize enough the damage that social media and the internet is doing to all of us," Cox said. "Some of the most powerful companies in the history of the world have figured out how to hack our brains, get us addicted to outrage - which is the same type of dopamine, the same chemical you get from taking fentanyl - and get us to hate each other.""
Social media algorithms have been characterized as directly contributing to recent assassinations and assassination attempts over the past five to six years. Major technology companies have engineered platforms that foster addiction to outrage by manipulating dopamine responses, producing harms comparable to harmful substances. That addiction amplifies societal division, increases political violence, and erodes individual agency. The impact is visible in incidents such as the death of Charlie Kirk and in broader patterns of youth mental-health concerns. Legal actions by states target tech companies for algorithmic harms and the exploitation of online conflict by profit-seeking actors.
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