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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Ariana Baio

Surgeon general demands warning labels on social media: ‘Our children’s well-being is at stake’

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To combat the mental health crisis among young people, the US surgeon general wants all social media platforms to have a tobacco-style warning label notifying users that they are “associated with significant mental health harms for adolescents.”

On Monday, Surgeon General Vivek Murthy penned an impassioned op-ed in The New York Times about the dangers of young people using social media too often and for too long at too young of an age.

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