With Big Tech companies recently losing two key lawsuits over the harm they do to youth — both in rulings they have promised ...

Here is my message, coming from a transgender woman who grew up with and was badly harmed by exploitative social media: Do ...

A Los Angeles jury found Meta and YouTube negligently designed their platforms to addict a teenage user, awarding $6 million ...

It found Meta and YouTube liable in a landmark case about social media addiction … MARK LAINER: This is the tip of the spear. And I do think it bodes well for the other thousands of cases that are out ...

The Australian Greens have introduced a new bill into Parliament which they say will create a Digital Duty of Care and force ...

Big Tech, companies like Meta, which owns Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp, and Alphabet that owns Google and YouTube, have ensnared millions of children and yo ...

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 ...

It’s among the first successful lawsuits in the nation making social media sites liable for mental health outcomes. While this lawsuit could open the door to further litigation and regulation, the ...

The Greens have today introduced a new bill to introduce a Digital Duty of Care and force social media companies to make their algorithmic feeds an opt-in user choice, taking aim at the toxic ...

The Greens have today introduced a new bill to introduce a Digital Duty of Care and force social media companies to make their algorithmic feeds an ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At age six, Sarah Hill was handed her first iPad by her parents, which she used to play games like Angry Birds and Minecraft ...

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg arrives for the landmark trial over whether social media platforms deliberately addict and harm ...