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Spencer Cox: “We've banned [social media] from our schools. Test scores go…”

Featuring: Spencer Cox, Republican | Governor of Utah

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Governor Shapiro joins Utah Governor Spencer Cox for Discussion on Political Violence

Published | Video Starts at 1:03:30

And they wouldn't even do that. So it just. They're bad faith actors and they no longer deserve the benefit of the doubt. And so again, but this is an important conversation. We've banned [social media] from our schools. Test scores go up in every school where they've been banned. Behavioral problems go down in every school where phones have been banned. Something magical happens. One school in particular, they thought there was a fight in the lunchroom because it was so loud in there. (1:03:30–1:03:36)

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