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Karl Tapales/Getty Images(NEW YORK) A new advisory from the U.S. surgeon general warns of an urgent public health issue regarding social media usage and youth mental health.
In the new advisory, released Tuesday, Dr. Vivek H. Murthy calls for more research to determine the extent of mental health impacts on young people, including the type of content generating the most harm, societal factors that could protect youth and ways in which social media can be beneficial.
"To date the burden of protecting youth has fallen predominantly on children, adolescents and their families," Murthy writes. "The entire burden of mitigating the risk of harm of social media cannot be placed on the shoulders of children and parents."
Murthy claims in the advisory that technology companies "lack of transparency" has created "barriers to understanding the full scope and scale of the impact of social media on mental health and well-being."
He calls on social medi
A recent U.S. surgeon general advisory on social media use and teens' mental health calls on social media companies and lawmakers to help create change.
Karl Tapales/Getty Images(NEW YORK) A new advisory from the U.S. surgeon general warns of an urgent public health issue regarding social media usage and youth mental health.
In the new advisory, released Tuesday, Dr. Vivek H. Murthy calls for more research to determine the extent of mental health impacts on young people, including the type of content generating the most harm, societal factors that could protect youth and ways in which social media can be beneficial.
"To date the burden of protecting youth has fallen predominantly on children, adolescents and their families," Murthy writes. "The entire burden of mitigating the risk of harm of social media cannot be placed on the shoulders of children and parents."
Murthy claims in the advisory that technology companies "lack of transparency" has created "barriers to understanding the full scope and scale of the impact of social media on mental health and well-being."
He calls on social medi
(NEW YORK) A new advisory from the U.S. surgeon general warns of an urgent public health issue regarding social media usage and youth mental health. In the new advisory, released Tuesday, Dr. Vivek H. Murthy calls for more research to determine the extent of mental health impacts on young people, including the type of