Meta Platforms Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google must pay damages to a 20-year-old woman who said her addiction to social media caused her mental health struggles, a jury concluded in a landmark ...

Meta and Google, the parent company of YouTube, were found liable for harming a woman’s mental health due to addictive design features, a California jury found in a landmark decision on Wednesday, ...

A patient of mine, a veteran who had tried to quit smoking for over a decade, told me that after he started a GLP-1 drug for his diabetes, he lost interest in cigarettes. He didn’t use a patch. He ...

A California jury has found Meta and YouTube liable on all counts in a landmark case that accused the tech giants of intentionally addicting a young woman and injuring her mental health. Meta and ...

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have said "the floodgates are open" for more legal cases against tech giants after Google and Meta were found liable for a woman's social media addiction in a landmark ...

A Los Angeles jury has found Alphabet’s Google and Meta liable for damages in a landmark civil trial over youth social media addiction. Campaigners and parents who say social media use has harmed ...

A jury found the companies harmed a young user with design features that were addictive and led to her mental health distress. By Cecilia Kang Ryan Mac and Eli Tan Cecilia Kang reported from ...

A Los Angeles jury delivered a rare verdict against Silicon Valley giants Wednesday — the second finding in two days — boosting hopes of safety advocates that courts will deliver a long-sought ...

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 ...

Digital technologies now occupy a central role in social connection, education, commerce, and health care. Yet growing evidence suggests that social media, algorithmic feeds, and AI systems may ...

One day after Meta lost a similar child safety lawsuit in New Mexico, a Los Angeles jury on Wednesday handed the social media giant — along with Google — another defeat. In a case arguing that social ...

That's it for our rolling updates for now - but here's a summary of what happened in LA earlier... Away from events in court, Meta has laid off some 700 employees as part of its shift in focus towards ...