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🗓️ 19 June 2024
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0:00.0 | It's Wednesday, June 19, 2024. |
0:08.0 | I'm Albert Moeller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events |
0:12.0 | from a Christian worldview. |
0:14.0 | The Surgeon General of the United States, Dr Vivick H. Murphy, has called for a warning label |
0:19.9 | concerning health to be put on social media platforms. |
0:24.4 | The Surgeon General statement was made in the context of public argument. |
0:28.1 | He held a press conference. |
0:29.2 | He also wrote a major piece which was published |
0:31.9 | as an opinion piece in the editorial pages of the New York Times. |
0:36.0 | Vivic H. Murphy is serving his second term as Surgeon General of the United States. |
0:41.6 | And what he's called for here raises some very interesting questions. |
0:46.1 | First of all I guess the most obvious question is, is social media dangerous? |
0:50.5 | In this case the Surgeon General is directing his primary attention towards children and young people. |
0:56.0 | Even as it's pretty well documentable that social media comes with all kinds of health concerns for just about anyone, he is pointing to the fact that |
1:04.4 | children and young people are particularly susceptible to damage. |
1:09.0 | And one of the significant issues of harm has to do with something just as simple as body image. |
1:14.2 | The Surgeon General cited documentation indicating that an unprecedented number of American |
1:19.6 | adolescents are now expressing a very low body image partly because of the |
1:24.4 | messaging that is coming over social media but we all know it's more than that. |
1:28.0 | In some cases that messaging is just |
1:33.7 | point out that this is a concern when it comes to adolescents that long |
1:37.2 | predates the development of social media. As you are looking at the |
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