ABSOLUTELY slap a surgeon general’s warning on social media — ASAP
NY Post
Surgeon General Vivek Murthy is entirely right: Congress should require a warning label, similar to those on cigarettes, on social media platforms.
Ever more evidence shows that social-media use damages young people, in particular.
As Murthy warned in a New York Times column, “Adolescents who spend more than three hours a day on social media face double the risk of anxiety and depression symptoms,” yet “the average daily use in this age group, as of the summer of 2023, was 4.8 hours.”
Just like cigarettes (which have carried a Surgeon General’s Warning since the 1960s), social-media platforms are designed to be addictive: That’s what makes them so profitable.
At this point, teens who aren’t on them often find themselves cut off from their peers.
A 2023 Pew study showed that one-third of US teens are on social media “almost constantly.”
