{"id":81801,"date":"2025-12-26T21:12:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T21:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/81801\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T21:12:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T21:12:10","slug":"ny-requiring-tiktok-meta-social-media-platforms-to-display-mental-health-warnings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/81801\/","title":{"rendered":"NY requiring TikTok, Meta, social media platforms to display mental health warnings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Social media platforms with infinite scrolling, auto-play and algorithmic feeds will be required to display warning labels about their potential harm to young users\u2019\u00a0mental\u00a0health\u00a0under a new law, New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKeeping New Yorkers safe has been my top priority since taking office, and that includes protecting our kids from the potential harms of social media features that encourage excessive use,\u201d Hochul, a Democrat, said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>This month Australia imposed a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/12\/10\/world-news\/australia-implements-social-media-ban-for-children-under-16-in-world-first\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">social media ban<\/a>\u00a0for children under 16. New York joins states like California and Minnesota that have similar social media laws.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38027726\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2025-new-york-ny-governor-117852045.jpg\" alt=\"Governor Kathy Hochul speaking at a podium during the SPARC Kips Bay groundbreaking.\" class=\"wp-image-38027726\"  \/>New York joins states like California and Minnesota that have similar social media laws. Susan Watts\/Office of Governor Kathy Hochul<\/p>\n<p>The New York law includes platforms that offer \u201caddictive feeds,\u201d auto play or infinite scroll, according to the legislation. <\/p>\n<p>The law applies to conduct occurring partly or wholly in New York but not when the platform is accessed by users physically outside the state.<\/p>\n<p>It allows the state\u2019s attorney general to bring legal action and seek civil penalties of up $5,000 per violation of the law.<\/p>\n<p>Hochul compared the social media labels to warnings on other products like tobacco, where they communicate the risk of cancer, or plastic packaging, where they warn of the risk of suffocation for small children.<\/p>\n<p>Spokespeople for TikTok, Snap, Meta, and Alphabet\u00a0did not immediately respond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n<p>The effect of social media on children\u2019s\u00a0mental\u00a0health\u00a0has become a growing global concern, with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/07\/07\/us-news\/li-school-districts-sue-social-media-companies-for-harm-to-adolescents\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">US school districts<\/a>\u00a0suing Meta Platforms and other social media companies.<\/p>\n<p>In 2023, the US surgeon general\u00a0issued an advisory\u00a0on safeguards for children and later called for social media\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/06\/17\/us-news\/us-surgeon-general-vivek-murthy-calls-on-congress-to-pass-legislation-requiring-tobacco-style-warning-on-social-media-platforms\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">warning labels<\/a>\u00a0like the one now required in New York.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Social media platforms with infinite scrolling, auto-play and algorithmic feeds will be required to display warning labels about&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81802,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[13888,288,4685,2953,426,32912,57,9,11,10,4015,1601,9740,13776],"class_list":["post-81801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-addiction","tag-business","tag-google","tag-health","tag-kathy-hochul","tag-meta","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-social-media","tag-tech","tag-tiktok","tag-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}