A warning label for social media? Here’s what it could look like

As we’re beginning to quantify exactly how bad social media is for public health, politicians are coming for Big Algorithm. Just this week, the U.S. surgeon general Dr. Vivek Murthy began a campaign to put an official warning label on social media, much like we see on tobacco and alcohol products. Whether or not he succeeds remains to be seen; Murthy only has the authority to enact a surgeon general’s warning with approval from Congress. But he argues that such a label could be a meaningful...