Social media should have cigarette packet-style health warnings, Lib Dames to say

Liberal Democrats would say that cigarette-style health warnings should be given on social media apps to protect children from damage.

In a drive to make the Internet safe for young people, the party also wants to introduce a “dumcrolling cap”, which will prevent their social media feed from providing new content endlessly.

Victoria Collins, spokesperson for Lib Dame Science and Technology, will complete plans in a speech at the party conference Bornemoth On Monday.

“If we are going to take this multivion-pound industry, we need to be brave,” she will tell the conference.

Ms. Colins will add: “We have long recognized that where online material pose a threat to public health, we have to know this. So I am calling to come with the compulsory health warning for the under -18 for drug addiction social media apps today.

“Like cigarettes or alcohol, these addictive products take well -dominated risk, especially for young people.

“Evidence is clear that excessive use of these apps exposes children to real damage to mental health issues, anxiety, sleep disruption and attention. Are they not worth knowing this?”

The intervention in the field of safety of children on social media comes after the party leader Sir Ad davi Tech boss continued his spat with Elon Musk.

Sir Ed has asked to allow images of child misuse and self-loss instructions to check the X platform of Mr. Musk.

US -based businessman Sir Kire is important of the stormer Government To introduce the online security act, which aims to save children online, but Mr. Musk says that there is a cool effect on free speech.

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Sir Ed is expected to attack Mr. Musk in his conference speech on Tuesday.

Ms. Collins, a spokesman of her party’s science, also changed the heat on the government for not going enough to protect children from harmful online materials.

He said: “Peter Kyle, recently, the Secretary of Science has robbed the time cap or curfew on the drug addiction social app – but left behind, leaving behind the record of failure.

“The government should eventually distribute and introduce a domacrol ban, that children can spend these drug addiction on apps.”

Voting commissioned by Libbus Dames Tech-centered speech found that 80% of the parents of school-class children have reported at least one negative behavior in young people due to excessive phone use.

The pole conducted by Sawant interviewed a representative sample of 611 UK parents of online school-ore-class children from 22 to 26 August.