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The U.S. Surgeon General is urging Congress to issue a warning label, similar to those seen on cigarette packs, for social media platforms and their impacts on young people.
“Evidence from tobacco studies show that warning labels can increase awareness and change behavior,” Murthy said. The surgeon general also asked why society has failed to address the negative impacts social media has on young people. “Social media today is like tobacco decades ago, it’s a product whose business model depends on addicting kids,” Josh Golin, executive director at Fairplay, an organization that is dedicated to ending marketing to children, said, according to a
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