{"id":1166430,"date":"2021-12-28T18:49:27","date_gmt":"2021-12-28T23:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1166430"},"modified":"2021-12-28T18:49:29","modified_gmt":"2021-12-28T23:49:29","slug":"republican-utah-gov-spencer-cox-misinformation-is-killing-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republican-utah-gov-spencer-cox-misinformation-is-killing-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican Utah Gov. Spencer Cox: &#039;Misinformation Is Killing People&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frepublican-utah-gov-spencer-cox-misinformation-is-killing-people%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1166430&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Spencer Cox, the Republican governor of Utah, agreed that it isn\u2019t \u201chyperbole\u201d to say that \u201cmisinformation is killing people,\u201d during an interview with local newspaper<em> Desert News<\/em> in which he also condemned \u201chateful rhetoric\u201d and expressed concern about a growing lack of faith in America\u2019s institutions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.deseret.com\/2021\/12\/26\/22843829\/polarization-misinformation-literally-killing-people-utah-governor-spencer-cox-politics-2021\">Via <em>Deseret News<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote>\n<p>So would he go so far as to say current politics and misinformation are literally killing people?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah. \u201d Cox answered. \u201cI mean, that\u2019s verifiably accurate. I don\u2019t think that\u2019s hyperbole. There\u2019s proof that there are certain individuals out there \u2026 who believe things that I know aren\u2019t true, that I can verify aren\u2019t true and because of that they made a decision that then ultimately left them unprotected from this terrible virus.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So, yes, Cox said, \u201cmisinformation is definitely killing people. And that\u2019s sad.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Cox\u2019s comments echo President Joe Biden\u2019s earlier this year, when he complained that social media disinformation about the coronavirus pandemic, in particular on Facebook, was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/news\/biden-says-social-media-misinformation-on-covid-killing-people\/\">\u201cliterally killing people.\u201d<\/a>&nbsp;Biden later <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/07\/19\/biden-facebook-isnt-killing-people-just-12-people-on-facebook-are\/\">clarified his comment<\/a> to place the blame on prominent users on Facebook, not on the company itself.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_19225282\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/A-BidenAP21355721660240.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19225282\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/A-BidenAP21355721660240.jpg\" alt=\"President Joe Biden speaks about the COVID-19 response and vaccinations, Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2021, in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington.\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Joe Biden speaks about the COVID-19 response and vaccinations, Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2021, in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington. (Patrick Semansky \/ ASSOCIATED PRESS)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Gov. Cox also lamented Americans\u2019 loss of faith in its \u201cbedrock institutions,\u201d drawing a link between the loss of trust and the rise of so-called disinformation.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>That includes \u201cmedia institutions, our institutions of higher learning, our family institutions, our church institutions,\u201d Cox said. \u201cAll the needles are kind of pointed down when it comes to those things that help define us. \u2026 And if we kind of lose faith in those institutions and lose faith in each other, then man becomes brutish and selfish and very tribal in a really concerning way.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Public surveys support the Utah governor\u2019s assertion that Americans have lost faith in their institutions. <a href=\"https:\/\/news.gallup.com\/poll\/1597\/confidence-institutions.aspx\">Public surveys consistently show<\/a> Americans\u2019 faith in key political and social institutions is hovering at or near to record lows.<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><strong><em>Allum Bokhari is the senior technology correspondent at Breitbart News.&nbsp;He is the author of&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/DELETED-Techs-Battle-Movement-Election\/dp\/154605930X\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">#DELETED: Big Tech\u2019s Battle to Erase the Trump Movement and Steal The Election.<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spencer Cox, the Republican governor of Utah, agreed that it isn\u2019t \u201chyperbole\u201d to say that \u201cmisinformation is killing people,\u201d during an interview with local newspaper Desert News in which he &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":172,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1166430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/172"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1166430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1166430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1166430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1166430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}