Is it time to treat social media like cigarettes?
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4.5 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 17 June 2024
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy has called for cigarette-style warning labels aimed at young users of social media platforms, citing social media’s significant contributions to the mental health crisis among adolescents. Plus, a surge in secondhand shopping among consumers, and a look inside the world of gender-affirming vocal coaching.
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| 0:36.0 | Should there be health warning labels for social media? |
| 0:47.0 | From Marketplace, I'm Novasafo in for David Brancaccio. |
| 0:51.0 | The U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murphy says the answer to that question I posed at the top of the |
| 0:55.7 | newscast is yes, social media should carry warning labels at least when it comes to its impact |
| 1:01.4 | on kids. Marketplace's Nancy Marshall Genser has more. |
| 1:05.0 | Dr. Murthy says social media has been an important contributor to the mental health crisis |
| 1:10.1 | among young people and adolescents spending more than three hours a day on these |
| 1:14.1 | platforms face double the risk of anxiety and depression, but the average last summer |
| 1:19.0 | was more than four hours a day. The warning label Murphy is calling for would say, quote, |
| 1:24.1 | social media is associated with significant mental health harms for |
| 1:28.2 | adolescents. Murphy also wants to prevent platforms from collecting sensitive data from children and he wants restrictions |
| 1:35.1 | on the use of features like push notifications, auto play, and infinite scroll. |
| 1:39.9 | But all this would require an act of Congress. |
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