Surgeon general calls for health warnings on social media for younger users

The U.S. surgeon wide called connected Monday for societal media platforms to see wellness warnings for younger users.

"It is clip to necessitate a surgeon general's informing statement connected societal media platforms, stating that societal media is associated with important intelligence wellness harms for adolescents," Vivek H. Murthy wrote successful an op-ed published successful The New York Times.

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Murthy's bureau had past twelvemonth issued an advisory connected societal media usage and its imaginable affects connected teenage users. He called astatine that clip connected societal media companies to prioritize information and privateness successful their merchandise designs and guarantee minimum property requirements are enforced.

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ABC News' Ahmad Hemingway, Dr. Amanda Kravitz and Dr. Mariam Gomaa contributed to this report.