A jury on Wednesday found that Meta and YouTube are liable for creating products that led to harmful and addictive behavior by young users, a landmark decision that could set a legal precedent for ...
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 ...
Scroll through your social media feed for just five minutes and you’ll see it: clickbait headlines or images, rage-bait videos designed to spike outrage, and slick ads that don’t look like ads at all.
LOS ANGELES — In closing arguments for the first social media addiction trial to make tech giants face a jury, the plaintiff's lawyer lambasted social platforms for profiting from users' attention, ...
The influential financial research firm MoffettNathanson suggests that the Google-owned video platform passed Disney's media business in 2025. By Alex Weprin Senior Editor YouTube‘s cultural influence ...
LOS ANGELES — The plaintiff in a landmark social media addiction trial is now expected to take the stand Thursday after other witnesses’ testimony ran overtime Wednesday. Subscribe to read this story ...
President Trump said in a recent executive order that the policy of the U.S. is “to promote democracy, the principle of free expression and press, the rule of law, and respect for human rights ...
Australia recently decided to try something ambitious. Starting late last year, all children under 16 have been banned from having accounts on social-media sites such as TikTok, YouTube, and Instagram ...
Today, we live inside a streaming media blizzard. Streaming media today is a pervasive environment, not an optional activity. Think about the many protests, riots and other types of incidents that we ...
One of the biggest cases ever concerned with the ways social media companies engage young users will test claims about addiction, as well as the tech giants' protections under the First Amendment. A ...
Social media apps have long been accused of being harmful to children. Now those claims will come before a jury for the first time in a trial kicking off Tuesday in a Los Angeles courtroom. A key ...
Trump Media and Technology Group announced a merger agreement with fusion power company TAE Technologies valued at more than $6 billion. The all-stock deal, expected to close in mid-2026, will result ...