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

The algorithms are designed to keep you in scrolling. Meta and YouTube deliberately used algorithms to make their products addictive. They must pay both compensatory and punitive damages to a young ...

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

TikTok has agreed to pay Alabama a minimum of $100 million to settle the state's allegations that the app was deliberately ...

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 ...

Assemblymember Joe Patterson, R-Rocklin, speaks at the Capitol on May 8, 2025. Patterson is a co-author of AB 1709, which seeks to protect kids under 16 from addictive social media. (NATHANIEL ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Meta and a coalition of state attorneys general have settled a major federal case centering on allegations that the social media giant misrepresented the extent of child-related mental health harms ...

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 ...