U.S. Surgeon General Vivek H. Murthy on Monday called for placing tobacco-style warning labels on social media to alert users that platforms can harm children’s mental health, escalating his warnings about the effects of online services such as Facebook, Instagram and TikTok.
Murthy urged Congress to enact legislation requiring that social media platforms include a surgeon general’s warning to “regularly remind parents and adolescents that social media has not been proved safe,” in a New York Times opinion essay.
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