"Social media is a cancer on our society right now,"
"I would encourage people to log off, turn off, touch grass, hug a family member, go out and do good in your community."
"These individuals were not suspects. They were people of interest," Utah Department of Public Safety Commissioner Beau Mason said. "They don't deserve that harassment."
"We are not wired as human beings - biologically, historically - we have not evolved in a way that we are capable of processing those types of violent imagery," he said. "We desperately need some healing."
Charlie Kirk was shot by a sniper at a Utah university, and graphic video of the slaying spread widely across social media, intensifying public anger. The killing provoked three days of extreme online reactions, including calls by some on the right for attacks on liberals and celebrations of the death. Two men were briefly detained, publicly identified online, and then cleared as unconnected, prompting officials to urge people to stop harassing them. Utah officials and the governor condemned social media's role, urged people to log off and seek community, and called for healing from the traumatic imagery.
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