Dozens of States Weigh Cell Phone Bans as Attorneys General Sue Social Media for Addicting Children to Devices

With health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. drawing criticism for suggesting biological harms to children from cell phones, communities find themselves better off without them.

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Attorneys General are suing social media for getting children addicted to cell phones. AP/Haven Daley

Even as state after state bans cell phones in schools and social media sites are being sued for addicting children to their platforms, America’s Health and Human Services Secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is facing a wrath of criticism for tying the engineering of cell phones to medical ills. 

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