# Facebook, Twitter and other social media companies need to be treated like Big Tobacco

- Link: https://www.widthness.com/facebook-twitter-and-other-social-media-companies-need-to-be-treated-like-big-tobacco/
- Published: 2021-07-17T09:15:13-05:00
- Author: dsignbyjw

Image by Gordon Johnson from Pixabay. Article by Joan Donovan, research director of Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center, and Jennifer Nilsen, research fellow at the Shorenstein Center. NBC News – The Think – July 15, 2021. The surgeon general’s new advisory shows their product is in need of serious consumer protection regulations. Thursday marks a turning point in internet history. For the first time, the U.S. surgeon general has declared the barrage of misinformation spreading on social media a public health hazard. In an advisory, Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy calls on technology companies to “take responsibility for addressing the harms” […] Click here to view original web page at www.nbcnews.com dsignbyjw Award winning Systems Architect, Director of Technology. Developer, Science Fiction writer, Graphic Novelist and Digital Cinematographer. See Full Bio