A judicial verdict in America on the harms of addictive-by-design social media spotlights the menace of rash digital ...

Ruling that Meta and YouTube deliberately designed addictive products marks possible watershed moment for big tech ...

Karnataka, home to the tech hub of Bengaluru, on March 6 became the first Indian state to ban social media for children under 16 ...

Meta and Alphabet, the parent company of YouTube, saw their stock price drop this week after a jury found the companies ...

The jury found Meta liable for $4.2 million in damages and Google for $1.8 million, small amounts for ​two of the world's ...

At Common Sense Media, we have long warned that the issue is not the material users post but the very design of tech companies' platforms. Many of our children's favorite apps and social-media sites ...

April 8 (Reuters) - Australia in December became the world's first country to ban social media for children under 16, ...

Meta Platforms Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google must pay damages to a 20-year-old woman who said her addiction to social media ...

Daphne Noble saw the signs everywhere. The principal of Breathitt High School in Jackson, Kentucky, USA, would find herself ...

Meta and YouTube must pay millions in damages to a 20-year-old woman after a jury decided the social-media giant and video streamer designed their platforms to hook young users without concern for ...

By: Gabriel E. Levy B. For more than 5 years in this academic space, I have been denouncing the unethical and questionable behavior of the META corporation. On March 25, 2026, a jury in Los Angeles ...

In a US$6 million verdict that will serve ‌as a bellwether for numerous similar cases, Meta and Alphabet's Google were found negligent by a jury for designing social media platforms that are harmful t ...