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Surgeon general calls for safety labels on social media |
Surgeon General Vivek Murthy is pushing for a warning label on social media platforms that would advise users of mental health risks for adolescents. |
In an opinion piece for The New York Times, Murthy called for a surgeon general's warning label to be placed on social media platforms, similar to those warning labels that appear on tobacco and alcohol products, our colleague Lauren Sforza reported. Studies have shown that warning labels on tobacco products can increase awareness and change a user's behavior, Murthy noted. "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," he wrote. "A surgeon general's warning label, which requires congressional action, would regularly remind parents and adolescents that social media has not been proved safe," he added. Murthy cautioned that a warning label alone would not make social media platforms safer for young people. He referenced an advisory he put out last year that warned that social media is contributing to the youth mental crisis and advised policymakers, platforms and members of the public to heed his recommendations to make social media safer for adolescents. Read more in a full report at TheHill.com. |
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The majority of voters in battleground House districts said they support the government passing laws aimed at improving safety for kids and teens online, according to a poll released Monday. There was strong bipartisan support for passing kids' online safety rules, with both 88 percent of Democrats and 82 percent of Republicans saying they support the government passing laws to put responsible safeguards in place to protect … |
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Proton to shift to nonprofit model |
The Swiss company Proton, which is behind privacy-focused apps like ProtonMail, will transition to a new nonprofit foundation model, similar to companies like Signal and Mozilla, TechCrunch reported. |
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Durbin presses Google on explicit deepfakes |
Senate Judiciary Chair Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) sent Google's parent company a letter Monday pressing the company for details over how it is planning to mitigate the spread of nonconsensual sexually explicit deepfakes across Google search, the Google Play Store and YouTube, NBC News reported. |
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NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — One is a wildly popular, seemingly happy-go-lucky YouTuber from Cyprus. The other is a brash, fringe figure of Spain’s far right who rails against unauthorized immigrants. They both are new members of the European Parliament thanks to their savvy use of video-based social … |
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Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) said in a Sunday interview the Supreme Court seems poised "to fundamentally rewrite" the Second Amendment and raised concerns … Read more |
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