America’s Top Doctor on Why He Wants Warning Labels on Social Media

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The New York Times

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4.4 • 102.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Warning: This episode contains mentions of bullying and suicide. A rising tide of mental health problems among teenagers has sent parents, teachers and doctors searching for answers. This week, the U.S. surgeon general, Dr. Vivek H. Murthy, offered one: social media. Today, Dr. Murthy discusses his proposal to require platforms such as YouTube, TikTok and Instagram to include warning labels, like those that appear on tobacco and alcohol products.

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0:00.0	From the New York Times, I'm Sabrina Tavernisi, and this is the Daily.
0:07.0	A rising tide of mental health problems among teens has sent parents, teachers and
0:16.8	doctors searching for answers. This week the nation's top doctor offered one.
0:23.0	Today, I talked with Surgeon General Vivake Morthy
0:28.0	about his plan to take on what he sees
0:31.0	as a central threat facing American teens.
0:34.7	Social media. It's Friday, June 21st.
0:45.0	It's Friday, June 21st. Dr.
0:55.0	Morethy, nice to see you.
1:00.0	Hey Sabrina, it's good to see you too.
1:02.0	You can call me Vivaic by the way. I'm very informal.
1:03.8	Vivaic, okay. Well, you know, being the Nation Stop Doctor, I'm inclined to call you Doctor, but we can go with Vivaic.
1:10.0	Yeah, I'll tell you, Sabrina, I still think of Dr. Murphy as my dad.
1:13.2	So, interesting.
1:16.5	So you are the country's Surgeon General and we're talking to you today because
1:21.3	earlier this week you made a pretty big announcement
1:23.5	about the dangers of social media for young people and you suggested a
1:28.6	potential fix for it. You actually announced this move by writing an op-ed in New York Times, but before we get to that
1:35.9	fix that you're proposing, let's talk about the problem.
1:40.2	When did you start thinking of this as an issue that you should be focused on?
1:45.0	Well, I first started seeing the roots of the youth mental health crisis during my first term
1:49.6	of Surgeon General. This was during 2014 to 17. I was traveling the country listening to
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