[(London)Times] Social media for children ‘like cancer risk of smoking’

‘[UK head of counterterrorism Matt Jukes] suggested that social media should be restricted for children in a similar way to smoking. The senior policing figure said the UK could not afford to take the same amount of time to tackle the impact of social media as that of smoking. Jukes said: “If I give you a parallel with the harm caused by smoking, by 1950, it was clear that smoking was causing lung cancer and killing people’

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