Two court verdicts this week spotlight the risks for teens from using social media — focusing on not just the content but the design of the platforms. On Wednesday a California jury held Google and ...

Kara Alaimo is a professor of communication at Fairleigh Dickinson University and advises parents, students and teachers on how to manage screen time. Her book “Over the Influence: Why Social Media ...

Social media is designed to be addictive, jurors in a landmark trial against two of the largest social media companies have found. Research in recent years has increasingly suggested a causal link ...

For the second time in as many days, Meta has been found liable in court for negligence. On Wednesday, a jury in Los Angeles decided that Meta and YouTube, owned by Google, did not warn users of harms ...

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg arrives to testify at Los Angeles Superior Court on Feb. 18. (Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images) A Los Angeles jury, embracing a novel legal theory, awarded $6 million in ...

A Los Angeles jury on Wednesday found Meta and Google liable in a trial accusing social media platforms of designing their products to get young users addicted, awarding the plaintiff $3 million in ...

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This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. A jury in Los Angeles may have just done for social media what early lawsuits did for Big Tobacco. Outside the ...

The first jury verdict in a series of social media child safety trials this year is in — and it's not looking good for Meta. A jury in New Mexico found on Tuesday that the social media giant's ...

Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A jury in New Mexico found on Tuesday that the ...

How harmful is social media for teenagers? This is one of the most debated questions surrounding youth health today, and the answer is complicated and nuanced. A new narrative review published in the ...

Do you doomscroll? If so, you’re not alone. One 2024 survey found that almost a third of American adults regularly doomscroll—that is, swipe through endless social media feeds—and millennials and Gen ...