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

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?

TikTok has settled Alabama's social media addiction lawsuit before it was supposed to go to trial.

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Meta must pay $4.2 million and Google (which owns YouTube) must pay $1.8 million, according to the jury. Six million dollars may seem like a nice windfall to the now 20-year-old, identified as K.G.M., ...

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 ...