At a high level, what the school districts are saying is, ‘You targeted kids. You knew that your product was potentially dangerous because it was ...

A trial opened Tuesday in Los Angeles in a landmark case alleging that major social media platforms cause addictive and harmful behavior in young users. The trial will test the theory that used even ...

Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is expected to testify in a test-balloon lawsuit that claims social media platforms harm children.

The case is seen as a test of social media's legal responsibility for platform design features that plaintiffs' lawyers say exacerbated mental health issues in young people.

The Meta chief executive was called to the witness stand in a civil trial over a lawsuit that accuses Instagram of knowingly causing harm to children.

The world’s biggest social media companies face several landmark trials this year that seek to hold them responsible for harms to children who use their platforms. Opening arguments for the first, in ...

Three of the biggest social media companies on the planet -- Instagram and Facebook owner Meta, YouTube owner Google and TikTok owner ByteDance -- are preparing for a landmark trial that may forever ...

Kaley G.M. claims Instagram and YouTube harmed her mental health, with her therapist citing social media as a contributing factor.

(Bloomberg/Madlin Mekelburg and Maia Spoto) — Meta Platforms Inc., ByteDance Ltd., Alphabet Inc. and Snap Inc. must face trial over claims that they designed social media platforms to addict youths, a ...

Jurors in a landmark social media case that seeks to hold tech companies responsible for harms to children got their first glimpse into what will be a lengthy trial characterized by dueling narratives ...

TikTok agreed to settle a landmark social media addiction lawsuit just before the trial kicked off, the plaintiff's attorneys confirmed. The social video platform was one of three companies - along ...

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified in a trial over allegations that social media is addictive and harmful. NPR's Leila Fadel asks Darrell West of the Brookings Institution about the case.