US Surgeon General calls for social media warning labels to protect adolescents
WASHINGTON - U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy on Monday called for a warning label to be added to social media apps as a reminder that those platforms have caused harm to young people, especially adolescents.
A 2019 American Medical Association study showed that the risk of depression doubled for teenagers who were spending three hours a day on social media."It is time to require a surgeon general's warning label on social media platforms, stating that social media is associated with significant mental health harms for adolescents," Murthy wrote on Monday.
New York state lawmakers this month passed legislation to bar social media platforms from exposing"addictive" algorithmic content to users under age 18 without parental consent.
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