The tenacious families of social media victims celebrated the landmark verdict Wednesday that determined Meta and Google design their platforms to be addictive — but insisted that the “war is not over ...

A historic ruling finding Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta and YouTube parent Google liable for fueling teen social media addiction could open the floodgates for an unprecedented legal crackdown on Big Tech, ...

We continue our conversation with attorney Laura Marquez-Garrett and victim advocates Lori Schott and Lennon Torres about their fight to hold tech giants accountable for the damaging and even deadly ...

TL;DR: A US court held Meta and Google liable for mental health harm caused to a young user, focusing on addictive design features like infinite scrolling and autoplay. The ruling awarded $6 million ...

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Meta and Google are going to court in Los Angeles over claims that Instagram and YouTube were designed to make kids addicted. The case is like lawsuits against Big Tobacco in that it focuses on ...

At age six, Sarah Hill was handed her first iPad by her parents, which she used to play games like Angry Birds and Minecraft whenever she was bored. By age 21, the Alabama native had fallen so deep ...