We're still in the process of implementing that. We've sued Meta. We've sued TikTok. We’re taking a page – they've taken a page, sadly, out of the tobacco lobby. They know this is harming our kids. They're covering it up. They're doing everything possible to take advantage of our kids for their own gain. And we're not going to stand for that.
Governor Cox discusses the aggressive legislation Utah has passed to hold social media companies accountable for harming youth.
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I absolutely agree with the surgeon general. And I want to give a quick shout-out to Governor Phil Murphy of New Jersey, who was the former chair of the National Governors Association, who took this issue on as his initiative for a year. We absolutely believe this is the issue of our time. We have seen a 63% increase in persistent loneliness and sadness among young women especially over the past ten to 12 years in the state of Utah. We have seen, again, suicide rates going up, depression, anxiety, self-harm rates skyrocketing. And what we know also is it corresponds with social media becoming ubiquitous and cell phones becoming ubiquitous with our teenagers. Those numbers you cited from the surgeon general are deeply troubling and really sad. We have to take control of this.
I would say that there's still debate in the medical community about whether or not that's actually true.
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