Surgeon General demands warning label on social media apps | CNN Business

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Surgeon General Vivek Murthy in an op-ed in the New York Times Monday said the threat social media poses to children requires urgent action, and he demanded Congress to put a label on the apps as with cigarettes and alcohol.

“The mental health crisis among young people is an emergency — and social media has emerged as an important contributor,” Murthy said in his op-ed.

Murthy pointed to several studies, including a 2019 American Medical Association study published in JAMA that showed teens who spend three hours a day on social media double

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