Dr. Vivek Murthy, who has called for Congress to mandate a warning label for social media platforms, similar to the warnings on cigarette boxes, stating that “social media is associated with significant mental health harms for adolescents.” (As he wrote in a strongly worded editorial in The New York Times, “Why is it that we have failed to respond to the harms of social media when they are no less urgent or widespread than those posed by unsafe cars, planes or food?”)
