‘Massive Legal Siege’ Against Social Media Companies Looms October 20, 2025 By Olivia Carville Thousands of complaints, millions of pages of internal documents and transcripts of countless hours of depositions are about to land...
New York City Sues Social Media Companies for Allegedly Addicting Children October 9, 2025 By Jonathan Stempel New York City filed a new lawsuit accusing Facebook, Google, Snapchat, TikTok and other online platforms of fueling a mental...
Supreme Court Rejects Bid to Sue Meta Over Church Shooting October 6, 2025 By Greg Stohr The U.S. Supreme Court declined a chance to open social media companies to lawsuits over content recommended by their algorithms,...
Google, Meta, OpenAI Face FTC Inquiry on Chatbot Impact on Kids September 11, 2025 By Leah Nylen The FTC ordered Alphabet Inc.'s Google, OpenAI Inc., Meta Platforms Inc. and four other makers of A.I. chatbots to turn...
Court Says Google, AI Firm Must Face Mother’s Lawsuit Over Suicide of Son May 21, 2025 By Blake Brittain Alphabet’s Google and artificial-intelligence startup Character.AI must face a lawsuit from a Florida woman who said Character.AI’s chatbots caused her...
TikTok’s New Owner Stands to Inherit 1,500 Safety, Privacy Suits April 4, 2025 By Peter Blumberg TikTok faces a mountain of litigation over child safety and privacy, a big risk for potential bidders vying to save...
Musk Blames X Outage on Cyberattack March 10, 2025 By Rishi Kant, Juby Babu and Raphael Satter Social media platform X went down for nearly 12,000 users on Monday, which owner Elon Musk said was the result...
TikTok Sued by 13 States and DC, Accused of Harming Younger Users October 8, 2024 By Jody Godoy and David Shepardson TikTok faces new lawsuits filed by 13 U.S. states and the District of Columbia on Tuesday, accusing the popular social...
TikTok Must Face Lawsuit Over 10-Year-Old Girl’s Death, Court Rules August 29, 2024 By Nate Raymond A U.S. appeals court has revived a lawsuit against TikTok by the mother of a 10-year-old girl who died after...
Beyond the Claim: How Social Canvassing is Transforming Insurance Fraud Detection April 22, 2024 By Joseph Stephenson In today’s digital era, insurers are leveraging social media to gather insights and evidence that could potentially support or jeopardize...