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

It's been four months since Australia banned under-16s from using social media, and ever since, a growing number of countries ...

Parents and campaign groups seeking tighter restrictions on social media have welcomed a Los Angeles jury handing down an ...

The multimillion-dollar verdict will grow, as the jury decided the companies acted with malice, or highly egregious conduct, meaning they will hear new evidence shortly and head back into the ...

California jurors decide companies were negligent in the design or operation of their platforms, an outcome that could ...

Sharon Horwood It’s called the infinite scroll – a design feature on social media, shopping, video and many other apps that ...

I’m talking about features like infinite scroll, which entices people with seemingly endless content, and autoplay, which ...

Sharon Horwood does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

Features woven into the fabric of platforms have been central to landmark social media harm case in US. How do they work? It was as “easy as ABC”, claimed the lawyer prosecuting a landmark social ...

A California jury has declared that social media giants Meta and YouTube were liable for harming a young woman by designing ...

'A phone ban may encourage young people to talk more face-to-face.' ...