“US Surgeon General: Warning Labels on Social Media Platforms” This is Something to Think About 06.18.24
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“US Surgeon General: Warning Labels on Social Media Platforms”
Bill Bunkley’s “This Is Something to Think About Commentary”
Air Date Tuesday, June 18, 2024
Health warning labels have appeared on tobacco products for years. Unfortunately, many have not heeded those warnings and, in some cases, have paid a very high price by losing their life.
Now, the U.S. Surgeon General is calling on tobacco-type warnings to be affixed to social media platforms.
General Vivek Murthy requested Congress to move legislation to require the warning labels. Murthy said, “It is time to require a surgeon general’s warning label on social media platforms, stating that social media is associated with significant mental health harms for adolescents.”
The warnings would remind parents and adolescents that social media has not been proven safe.
Tobacco warnings increase awareness and can change behaviors. The same may work on social media.
That said, Congress should move quickly to implement social media warnings.
Bill Bunkley is an 18-year veteran Salem Media talk show host based in Tampa. The Bill Bunkley Show airs weekdays across central Florida from 3 to 6 pm. Bill is also President of the Florida Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, which serves as the legislative consultant to the Florida Baptist State Convention (Southern Baptist Convention Churches), among other churches and entities. He has served as the legislative consultant to the Florida Baptist State Convention for the last 28 years at the state capitol in Tallahassee. By the Grace of his Lord Jesus, he is today a cancer survivor diagnosed in 2018 with AML Leukemia, having successfully undergone a bone marrow transplant that same year. His wife is Toni, son is Zac, and they attend Idlewild Baptist Church.
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