TikTok Accused by NY of Running Secret Safety Tests on Teens October 8, 2026 By Olivia Carville and Madlin Mekelburg New York Attorney General Letitia James has added new allegations to a child safety lawsuit against TikTok Inc., accusing the...
San Diego Sues AppLovin Over Explicit Ads Shown to Kids’ Devices October 6, 2026 By Olivia Solon San Diego County has filed a lawsuit against mobile advertising technology company AppLovin Corp., alleging that it bypassed parental controls...
First US Trial Against TikTok to Test Claims Platform Fueled Teen Mental Health Crisis September 28, 2026 By Diana Novak Jones An Alabama jury will hear the state’s claims that TikTok and its Chinese parent company ByteDance made the platform addictive...
Portuguese Group D3 Sues Meta, TikTok And YouTube Over Addictive Design September 11, 2026 By Sergio Goncalves Portuguese digital rights group D3 has filed lawsuits against Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, accusing them of designing features in...
Brazil Seeks $97 Million From App Discord Over User Protections August 27, 2026 By Daniel Carvalho Brazil’s government is seeking 500 million reais ($97.1 million) in damages from chat app Discord Inc. in a local lawsuit,...
Meta Agrees to Pay Up to $16.7 Billion in Social Media Case August 26, 2026 By Madlin Mekelburg Meta Platforms Inc. has agreed to pay up to $16.7 billion to settle a landmark social media case with multiple...
TikTok to Pay $400 Million to Settle DOJ Child Privacy Case August 24, 2026 By Josh Sisco and Alexandra S. Levine TikTok Inc. and Chinese parent ByteDance Ltd. agreed to pay $400 million to resolve a a Biden-era lawsuit by the...
Meta, 29 States Head to Court in Biggest Test Yet of Youth Social Media Litigation August 12, 2026 By Diana Novak Jones Meta Platforms will face a coalition of state attorneys general in a California federal court trial beginning on Wednesday over...
Appeals Court Allows Thousands of Social Media Suits Over User Addiction Claims to Proceed August 10, 2026 By Diana Novak Jones A U.S. appeals court on Monday allowed thousands of lawsuits to move forward against Meta Platforms, Alphabet’s Google, ByteDance’s TikTok,...
Meta Ordered to Pay $567 Million In New Mexico for Teen Mental Health Fund August 7, 2026 By Andrew Hay, Dietrich Knauth and Diana Novak Jones A New Mexico state court ordered Meta on Thursday to pay $567 million into a teen mental health fund and...