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California enacts social media warning labels, age-verification mandate

By Maria Dinzeo ( October 13, 2025, 19:10 GMT | Insight) -- California is taking aim at social media the way it once did tobacco, with a new law signed by Governor Gavin Newsom that will force platforms to flash "Surgeon General"–style warnings about mental-health harms to minors who spend hours online.Periodic black box warnings about the “significant mental health harms” caused by social media are now required in California under a law signed Monday by Governor Gavin Newsom....

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