“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,” Dr. Murthy wrote. “A surgeon general’s warning label, which requires congressional action, would regularly remind ...
"As social media use has risen, so have self-reports and clinical diagnoses among adolescents of anxiety and depression, along withemergency room visits for self-harm and suicidal ideation," theTimesnotes.The surgeon general's advisory warned of “extreme, inappropriate and harmful content” that ...
Social media platforms should post warning labels, similar to those now used on cigarette packs, for teenagers who are increasingly suffering from mental health issues that are partly tied to the apps, U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy said Monday in an opinion piece in the New York Times. ...
Kids of just about every age group are spendingmore time than everon social media. While we know too much social media use can be problematic for a host of reasons, the U.S. surgeon general is now warning that all of those hours of TikTok, Snapchat, and Instagram are driving...
The same can happen to adults. InMurthy's letter calling for the warning this summer, he reminded everyone that social media hasn't been proven safe. He said: A surgeon general’s warning label, which requires congressional action, would regularly remind parents and adolescents that social media...
US Surgeon General Calls for Social Media Warning Labels to Protect Adolescents More Reuters FILE PHOTO: U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy speaks during a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., June 8, 20...
s warning label on social media platforms, stating that social media is associated with significant mental health harms for adolescents. A surgeon general’s warning label, which requires congressional action, would regularly remind parents and adolescents that social media has not been proved s...
US Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy has issueda new public advisorywarning that “there are ample indicators that social media can also have a profound risk of harm to the mental health and well-being of children and adolescents.” Although the report says social media can provide benefits...
arrest them simply for being who they are. of course, the surgeon general and state lawmakers aren’t intentionally trying to sabotage these aspects of online life, but this is the inevitable consequence of how they’re approaching the threat of social media. the surgeon general’s advisory ...
Surgeon general calls for warning-style labels on social media platforms In an op-ed in The New York Times, Dr. Vivek Murthy writes, “A surgeon general’s warning label ... would regularly remind parents and adolescents that social media has not been proved safe.”...