Peggy Noonan recently wrote a Wall Street Journal op-ed column in response to Jonathan Haidt’s new book: “The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness.”
The book overflows with data supporting Haidt’s conclusion that social media harm children’s and adolescents’ mental health. Noonan reflected on the phenomenon surrounding the release of his book. Everyone knows social media harm kids, but when a person with authority—a psychologist and scholar, in this case—conveys the message, for good or for ill, “it hits like a thunderclap.”
Now, on Monday, another thunderclap erupted when Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy published an op-ed column in The New York Times calling for a surgeon general’s warning label on social media platforms. Such a proposal certainly does not come out of the blue. In May of…
