Years after the risks of social media for kids first became apparent, U.S. states this summer reached an accord hailed as a ...

Recently Meta, the owners of Facebook and Instagram settled with states over a lawsuit concerning social media addiction in ...

A Los Angeles jury on Wednesday found Meta and Google liable in a closely watched trial accusing social media platforms of designing their products to get young users addicted, awarding the plaintiff ...

How much does the absence of a formal “social media addiction” diagnosis matter in consumer-protection cases alleging that platforms misled consumers about compulsive use?

While concerns over compulsive technology use have been around since the dawn of social media, courts are just beginning to consider whether it’s a legal injury. In a landmark verdict last week, a Los ...

LOS ANGELES—Following a landmark $6 million personal injury verdict in March against Meta and Google, the next bellwether case in California state court considering whether tech giants can be liable ...

According to a report from Reuters, San Francisco’s 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals denied these platforms’ attempt to defend themselves from thousands of lawsuits through an argument based on ...

Australia's under-16 social media restrictions remain popular with adults, but early research found widespread teen ...

In February, a landmark case against the world’s largest social media companies began in California and attracted a lion’s share of press coverage. Speaking for the plaintiffs, lawyer Mark Lanier ...

People who spend excessive time lost in vivid, immersive fantasies often report higher rates of social media addiction and hypersexuality. New research suggests that underlying narcissistic traits and ...

Social media addiction has been compared to casinos, opioids and cigarettes. While there’s some debate among experts about the line between overuse and addiction, and whether social media can cause ...

California's AB 1709 bans autoplay and personalized social media feeds for users under 16 and one Bakersfield family tells ...