After about a month of hearing from addiction experts, therapists, platform engineers and executives, including Mark Zuckerberg, a jury has heard closing arguments before heading to the deliberation r ...

Kendall chaired this morning’s panel, which also included Safeguarding Minister Jess Phillips and Online Safety Minister Kanishka Narayan. Among the social media firms that did turn up for the event ...

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An expert witness in a case brought by a California woman against Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, testified that the design features of its social media apps are addictive, ...

The world's biggest social media companies face several landmark trials this year that seek to hold them responsible for harms to children who use their platforms. Opening statements in one such trial ...

Super Bowl LX has barely wrapped up, but fans have already turned their attention to the next one. Just hours after the Seattle Seahawks dismantled the New England Patriots to lift this year’s ...

For more than a decade, policymakers and advocacy groups have cast teenagers’ use of social media as a looming public health crisis. This now widely accepted assumption has fueled calls for bans and ...

Australia recently decided to try something ambitious. Starting late last year, all children under 16 have been banned from having accounts on social-media sites such as TikTok, YouTube, and Instagram ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Jury selection was set to begin in L.A. County Superior Court on Tuesday in a lawsuit that alleges social media ...

Social media apps have long been accused of being harmful to children. Now those claims will come before a jury for the first time in a trial kicking off Tuesday in a Los Angeles courtroom. A key ...

A landmark case against social media giants Meta, Alphabet's YouTube and TikTok is set to begin Tuesday in Los Angeles Superior Court. It's the first of several high-profile legal cases against social ...