Age 13 and younger is 'too early' for kids to be on social media, surgeon general admits

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U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy recently warned that age 13 and younger is too early for America’s kids to be using social media platforms — despite this being the minimum age to join many of these popular sites, such as Facebook, TikTok, Snapchat and Instagram.

Said Murthy last week about children using social media, “I, personally, based on the data I’ve seen, believe that 13 is too early.”

He went on, “It’s a time when it’s really important for us to be thoughtful about what’s going into how they think about their own self-worth and their relationships — and the skewed and often distorted environment of social media often does a disservice to many of those children,” he added. Fox News Digital reached out to the surgeon general’s office for comment, as well as to Facebook and TikTok…