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U.S. surgeon general wants mental health warning label on social media

June 17, 2024
U.S. surgeon general wants mental health warning label on social media

U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek H. Murthy wants social media platforms to include a parental advisory warning that using the sites could be harmful to the mental health of adolescents. Such a warning, he said, would remind parents and their children that social media has “not been proved safe.”

Congress would have to sign on before a label could be required. But in an essay published in The New York Times on Monday, America’s top doctor wrote that “the mental health crisis among young people is an emergency, and social media has emerged as an important contributor.”

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