The surgeon general wants social media to come with warning labels

Photo credit: Jakub Porzycki / NurPhoto / Getty Images. Article by Miranda Neubauer. Quartz – updated June 17, 2024.

Surgeon General Vivek Murthy is calling for official warning labels on social media platforms to help address the mental health crisis among young people. Similar to warning labels on tobacco products, Murthy wrote in a New York Times op-ed published Monday that such a warning would state that “social media is associated with significant mental health harms for adolescents.” […]

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