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Health Warnings Could Reduce Young People's Social Media Use, Study Finds

Warnings about mental health harms were rated most effective, and the experiment found they also increased awareness of social media risks among 1,012 participants.

Summary by Medical Xpress
Pop-up messages that warn of the harms of social media—such as mental health consequences—have the potential to reduce young people's social media use, a new Stanford Medicine study has found. The online experiment of about 1,000 teens and young adults found that warnings also boosted people's knowledge of the risks of social media use.

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US researchers tested 14 social media health warnings on more than a thousand teenagers and young adults. Messages about depression, anxiety, and mental health discouraged the most, a warning of addiction hardly. The idea came from Vivek Murthy. Until early 2025, he was the top medical advisor to the U.S. government. In 2024, [...] More science? Read the latest articles on Scientias.nl.

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Medical Xpress broke the news in Douglas, United Kingdom on Friday, September 4, 2026.
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