U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy is urging Congress to mandate warning labels on social media platforms, similar to those on tobacco and alcohol products, citing a mental health crisis among young people.
Murthy made his case in an op-ed published Monday in The New York Times, arguing that social media is a significant contributor to the emergency. He referenced several studies, including a 2019 report from the American Medical Association, which found that teens who spend three hours a day on social media double their risk of depression.A local attorney, Michael Bonamarte, who has a nine-year-old child, emphasized the need for community action to hold social media companies accountable.
"I’d like nothing more than to not get a call from someone in my community and hear that something horrible has happened to their child. But I think it's important for trial lawyers to be willing to put up a fight and challenge what is going on right now because it’s a very, very serious problem that a lot of communities are dealing with," said Bonamarte, Managing Partner for Levin & Perconti.
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