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Reason
Liz Wolfe

WARNING: You Won't Like This New Label

Surgeon General wants warning labels for social media: We already have 'em for booze and cigarettes. So why not Instagram and TikTok?

Surgeon General Vivek Murthy has a New York Times op-ed out today that calls for Congress "to require a surgeon general's warning label on social media platforms, stating that social media is associated with significant mental health harms for adolescents." Such a label would serve to "regularly remind parents and adolescents that social media has not been proved safe."

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