Warning Labels on Social Media: Surgeon General Wants Them to Protect Young People. Will Congress Act?
18th June 2024
No, because (a) they won’t do any good–people still smoke, despite the fact that labels have been on tobacco products for fifty years; (b) Social Media political donations are more influential in Congress than some diversity-hire in the public health bureaucracy; and (c) politicians are too busy using the existing Social Media situation to harvest votes.
This is just another government employee who wants a line on his resumé that says See I Did Something.