YouTube Lawyer Sees No Addiction From Half Hour of Videos February 11, 2026 By Madlin Mekelburg A 20-year-old in a landmark social media addiction trial used YouTube for an average of just 29 minutes per day...
Instagram, YouTube Called Addiction ‘Machines’ at Landmark Trial February 10, 2026 By Madlin Mekelburg A 20-year-old woman who claims she’s been addicted to social media for more than a decade made a brief appearance...
Meta, TikTok, YouTube to Stand Trial on Youth Addiction Claims January 26, 2026 By Courtney Rozen Meta Platforms, TikTok and YouTube will face courtroom scrutiny this week over allegations that their platforms are fueling a youth...
Lawsuit Claims Meta Can See WhatsApp Chats in Breach of Privacy January 26, 2026 By Jake Bleiberg An international group of plaintiffs sued Meta Platforms, Inc. alleging that the company has made false claims about the privacy...
Meta Buried ‘Causal’ Evidence of Social Media Harm, Lawsuits Allege November 24, 2025 By Jeff Horwitz Meta shut down internal research into the mental health effects of Facebook after finding causal evidence that its products harmed...
‘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...