Civil juries in Los Angeles County and Santa Fe, N.M., recently found that social media companies were responsible for harms ...

A flood of lawsuits filed in recent years against social media giants claim that by engineering their platforms to be hard to ...

Jerome Adams, who served as surgeon general in President Trump's first term, said that "similar to cigarettes," the ...

A Colorado teen surveyed over 1,000 girls and found strong links social media use and anxiety, depression and sleep ...

Juries in two big cases have affirmed what research is finding: The design of social media platforms is particularly ...

Online safety advocates hope landmark trial verdicts this week can bring change to social media platforms they have warned about for years, after juries found Meta (and YouTube in one case) ...

The jury ordered the companies to pay $6 million in damages over defective design. The landmark verdict may influence the ...

Aggressive strategy and loss in the trial highlight a problem for tech firms: a widespread distrust of social media companies ...

A win for the plaintiffs there could be disastrous for Meta and Alphabet, while raising serious questions about free speech on the web. But if the companies prevail, it could close the door on the way ...

Austria’s governing coalition has announced plans to ban social media use for children under 14. It is joining a string of ...

Experts say the rulings could expose tech companies to more litigation and pressure them to make changes to their apps.

VIENNA, March 27 (Reuters) - Austria's conservative-led, three-party government plans to introduce a ban on social media use ...