The federal government puts warnings on tobacco and alcohol. Is social media next?

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Social media platforms are part of what the U.S. Surgeon General is calling a youth mental health crisis. doble-d/Getty

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Emma Lembke was only 12 years old when many of her friends started using phones and social media.

“Each one of them, as a result, was getting pulled away from kind of conversation with me, from hanging out with me, from even, like, playing on the playground, hanging out outside at school. It felt as though my interactions were dwindling,” Lembke told NPR.

It wasn’t just her experience. On average, teens in the

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