Andrew Paul is Popular Science's staff writer covering tech news. Previously, he was a regular contributor to The A.V. Club and Input, and has had recent work featured by Rolling Stone, Fangoria, GQ, Slate, NBC, as well as McSweeney's Internet Tendency. He lives outside Indianapolis.
ArticleBody:US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy believes social media platforms like Facebook, TikTok, Instagram, and X should be legally required to feature health warning labels similar to tobacco and alcohol products. The nation’s chief public health officer wrote an op-ed published in The New York Times on Monday morning, offering some of his strongest condemnations yet in the ongoing debate surrounding social media’s addictiveness and negative psychological impacts, particularly on young users.
Surgeon General Murthy issued an advisory statement in May 2023 highlighting “ample indicators” that these platforms can create a “profound risk of harm to mental health and well-being.” A few months earlier, the Seattle public school system filed a first-of-its-kind lawsuit accusing major social media companies of profiting off of ongoing adolescent mental health crises, which in turn “directly affects Seattle public schools’ ability to fulfill its educational mission.
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