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The Surgeon General Calls for a Warning Label on Social Media
Dr. Murthy is right. The evidence of widespread harm to adolescents is now strong.
Yesterday, June 17, Dr. Murthy dropped a bomb: An essay in the New York Times in which he called for government-mandated warning labels on social media, akin to those that a previous Surgeon General in 1964, on cigarettes. But what if the millions of parents, teachers, principals, psychologists, and members of Gen Z who believe that social media is harming young people turn out to be correct, a nd yet America continues to do nothing, waiting another decade for the psychological research community to reach wide consensus? Faced with high levels of car-accident-related deaths in the mid- to late 20th century, lawmakers successfully demanded seatbelts, airbags, crash testing and a host of other measures that ultimately made cars safer.
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