Lee, Helen Bouygues. “Social Media Is a Public Health Crisis. Let’s Treat It Like One”. 20 July, 2021

          In this digital newspaper, founder and president of the Reboot Foundation, which develops tools and resources to help people cultivate critical thinking, media literacy and reflective thought discusses the red flags of social media. In the newspaper it states, “ need to start treating these platforms like we do cigarettes and alcohol. That means implementing warning labels and age restrictions, and conducting better research into the health effects of long-term usage.” Social media has become an addiction for society as serious as cigarettes and alcohol. In the newspaper it states, “ Social media’s threat to our national mental health is at least as dangerous as anti-vaccine disinformation”. Social media is really bad for mental health and spreads misleading information. It also states, “Our research has shown that some 40% of social media users would give up their pet or car before they’d give up their accounts. And shockingly, more than 70% said they would not permanently scrap their social media for anything less than $10,000.” It is imprudent for people to place greater value on a digital platform than on physical possessions like their car, pet, or money. Social Media has become a serious issue in society.