California Governor Gavin Newsom signed legislation on Monday that will require that platforms regularly display warning labels of the addictive nature of social media .

The bill, AB 56, is among several measures the governor signed to establish greater guardrails on social media and AI .

AB 56, from Assemblywoman Rebecca Bauer-Kahan, will require that platforms display a black box “to certain users each day the user initially accesses the social media platform, again after 3 hours of cumulative active use, and thereafter at least once per hour of cumulative active use, as prescribed.” It will not be required if that platform “has reasonably determined” that the user is over the age of 17.

The warning labels will read, “The Surgeon General has warned that while social media may ha

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