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New York City middle school and high school students could soon be required to receive warnings about the negative impacts of social media under new legislation City Councilman Shaun Abreu plans to introduce next month. Abreu’s bill would compel the city Department of Education to distribute facts at the beginning of each school year about social media addiction, its potential health impacts and the dangers posed by engaging with strangers online. “Social media is like Frankenstein — a monster of our own making. We are stuck in an addiction spiral with alarming mental and physical health conse…

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