Snap, YouTube Settle School-Social Media Suit Ahead of Trial May 18, 2026 By Alexandra S. Levine and Madlin Mekelburg Google’s YouTube and Snap Inc. reached agreements to settle the first lawsuit headed to trial over claims that addiction to...
California County Suing Meta Over Scam Ads May 11, 2026 By Jeff Horwitz California’s Santa Clara County has sued Meta Platforms, alleging it has profited from Facebook and Instagram ads promoting scams in...
Meta Challenges UK Regulator Over Online Safety Fees, Fines May 8, 2026 By Sam Tobin Facebook and Instagram owner Meta is challenging Britain’s media regulator Ofcom over how fees and penalties under the Online Safety...
Meta Asks California Judge to Throw out Landmark Social Media Addiction Verdict May 7, 2026 By Diana Novak Jones Meta Platforms has asked a Los Angeles judge to throw out a jury’s verdict finding the company liable for a...
Major Publishers Sue Meta for Copyright Infringement Over AI Training May 6, 2026 By Blake Brittain Publishers Elsevier, Cengage, Hachette, Macmillan and McGraw Hill sued Meta Platforms in Manhattan federal court on Tuesday, alleging that the...
New Mexico Seeks $3.7B, Changes to Meta Platforms in Youth Harm Trial May 5, 2026 By Diana Novak Jones The U.S. state of New Mexico on Monday asked a judge to declare Meta Platforms a public nuisance, order the...
Italian Court Allows Class Action Against Meta Over Facebook Data Scraping April 15, 2026 By Claudia Cristoferi A Milan court on Tuesday accepted a class action brought by a consumer group against Meta Platforms over the theft...
Meta Pulls Ads Aimed at Recruiting Plaintiffs for Social Media Addiction Lawsuits April 10, 2026 By Diana Novak Jones Meta Platforms said on Thursday it is pulling ads from Facebook and Instagram aimed at recruiting new plaintiffs for ongoing...
Perplexity AI Machine Accused of Sharing Data With Meta, Google April 1, 2026 By Robert Burnson Perplexity AI was accused in a lawsuit of surreptitiously sharing the personal information of its users with Meta Platforms and...
Jury Verdicts Against Meta, Google Tee up Fight Over Tech Liability Shield March 26, 2026 By Diana Novak Jones Jurors in the first two trials in the U.S. from a growing wave of lawsuits targeting social media firms over...