A potential watershed moment for the tech industry starts this week, as the first of a series of major "social media addiction" trials gets underway. The case involves a 19-year-old California woman, ...

Jury selections begin Tuesday for a potentially landmark trial involcing major social media companies over claims that their platforms are addictive for teens and possibly dangerous. New Budweiser ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A landmark trial beginning this week in Los Angeles could establish a legal precedent on whether social media companies deliberately designed their platforms to addict children. Jury ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. TikTok has agreed to settle in a landmark social media addiction lawsuit just before the trial kicked off, the plaintiff’s ...

TikTok agreed to settle a landmark social media addiction lawsuit just before the trial kicked off, the plaintiff’s attorneys confirmed. The social video platform was one of three companies — along ...

The world’s largest social media firms are in court this week in an unprecedented series of trials that could determine whether their platforms are responsible for harming young people’s mental health ...

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 ...

A Los Angeles jury is poised to consider a central question in the debate over social media and teenage welfare: Are platforms such as Instagram and TikTok causing mental-health disorders? A ...

TikTok agreed to settle a landmark social media addiction lawsuit just before the trial kicked off, the plaintiff's attorneys confirmed. The social video platform was one of three companies - along ...

Some of the world’s biggest tech companies are facing landmark trials that could alter the outlook of the social media industry when a jury decides whether their platforms are addictive and hurting ...