NYC Mayor: Investigate Social Media, Mr. President

NEW YORK CITY — New York City’s drill rap-dissing, burgeoning fuddy-duddy-in-chief has a request for America’s octogenarian commander-in-chief: investigate social media.

“I don’t think that we have properly analyzed what social media is doing to us in general, specifically to our young people,” Mayor Eric Adams said Tuesday in response to a question about a teen’s recent subway surfing death.

“I am hoping the president calls a national Blue Ribbon Commission to really analyze this thing that has really dropped into our lives.”

Adams call to President Joe Biden wasn’t entirely out of the blue.

The mayor has blasted Twitter as a platform for hate speech and called for social media companies to ban drill rap music videos that he said inspire violence.

Similarly, Adams blamed social media videos Tuesday for inspiring a 15-year-old to climb atop a subway train. Such videos indeed circulate online, but Adams didn’t provide evidence they prompted the youth’s actions.

He also cited the so-called “Kia Challenge” — a TikTok trend in which youths stole cars by exploiting security weaknesses — as an example of social media’s potential negative impact on youngsters.

“Social media is impacting our lives and they’re robbing our children of their innocence,” he said.

“I think the national government must come in and say what is the corporate responsibility of social media.”