The Current 24:12 Should social media come with a warning label? The U.S. surgeon general has called for social media platforms to come with a health warning for teens — similar to labels on cigarettes — but one advocate says the onus for online safety should be on big tech, not young people or their parents.
"I think that young people have had a tremendous amount of stress and burden placed on them to have to figure out and police their own social media usage," said Zamaan Qureshi, co-founder of Design it for Us, which pushes for safer social media for young people. "The vast majority of young people just don't know or have the tools to be able to detach," the 21-year-old told The Current's Matt Galloway. In a New York Times opinion piece published Monday, U.
S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy said social media is contributing to a mental health crisis in the young.
He criticized tech companies for "unleashing powerful technology without adequate safety measures, transparency or accountability." WATCH | What social media scrolling is doing to kids' brains: What social media scrolling is doing to kids’ brains 7 months ago Duration 7:52 With most children and teenagers spending hours a day on a smartphone, CBC’s Christine Birak breaks down what research shows about how using social media is changing kids’ behaviour, if it's rewiring their brains and what can be done about it. "When adolescents spend more than three hours a day on social media, we're seeing an associa.
