A new assembly bill (via Engadget) introduced by Attorney General Rob Bonta and assembly member Rebecca Bauer-Kahan has proposed legislation that would mandate warning labels on social media platforms.
The bill, AB 56, says an adolescent who spends more than per day on social media faces "double the risk of experiencing poor mental health outcomes, including symptoms of depression and anxiety."
Social media platforms would be legally required to disclose these mental health risks using warning labels. The bill doesn't clearly state what these warnings should look like or where they should appear on the platforms.
In September, Bonta and a bipartisan coalition of 42 attorney generals signed a proposal for social media platforms to carry a surgeon general's warning. In June, US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy wrote an article in The New York Times where he called for surgeon general warning labels on social media platforms, saying that a warning "would regularly remind parents and adolescents that social media has not been proved safe."
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