The first plaintiff to take major social media companies to trial is expected to take the stand Wednesday to speak about the harms she says the tech platforms inflicted on her mental health as a child ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Victoria Burke, the licensed therapist, appeared as a witness in a landmark civil trial in Los Angeles County Superior Court testing whether Big Tech can be held liable for the design of apps widely b ...

Instagram's parent company Meta and Google's YouTube dispute claims that their platforms deliberately addict and harm ...

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

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg will be grilled on Wednesday on the addictive nature of social media for youth, though scientists ...

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.

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 ...