Mayor Adams and MTA officials say social media is partly to blame for the rise in a deadly subway surfing trend. JohnBDias has more on what they want to see done.
They say social media is partly to blame for the alarming trend.
"Some of these sites, they're more addictive than drugs, people can't get off them. And you start duplicating this behavior," Adams said Tuesday. should set up some sort of committee to analyze the negative impacts of social media. "I think the national government must come in and say, 'What is the corporate responsibility of social media?' I'm just surprised this hasn't been done," said Adams. The push comes after police say 15-year-old Zackery Nazario, of thePolice say he was subway surfing across the Williamsburg Bridge, an idea he may have gotten after seeing it done on
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