lawmakers, they argue that they know what is driving the deadly crisis, and that it s social media. so today a group of bipartisan senators caught, and schatz, murphy, brit unveiled a bill that would establish an age of 13 for social media use, calling it a common sense bipartisan approach to stop the suffering. the legislation would require tech companies to get parents consent before creating accounts for users under the age of 18. this federal move follows utah last month, becoming the first state to require consent from parents before minors joined the social media platform. that s the most aggressive yet to shield kids from potential dangers online. it s not just legislators who have been active. in january the seattle public school district filed suit against parent companies of pit snapchat, tiktok, saying they had all potentially contributed to these mental health to file suit against social media companies. at the time d.a. told cnn, it is no different and opioid
quite frankly it is overdue. this has been, as you mentioned, going on since 2011. my colleague at nyu jonathan has basically found that it is no longer just correlation, but it is causation, he controlled for the other causes of depression. and found that social media was in fact, you know, had a big correlation what was most stunning in his research, michael, was that he found that the levels of depression which increased naturally or hit natural levels, even through covid. and that is the ultimate catalyst for social distancing,