Juries in two big cases have affirmed what research is finding: The design of social media platforms is particularly compelling and hard to resist for kids. There are growing calls to change it.

How social media apps are designed has a lot to do with whether teens have good or bad experiences. Daniel de la Hoz/Moment via Getty Images Social media is a complex environment that presents both ...

A Los Angeles jury has delivered a verdict in the first bellwether social-media-addiction case to go to trial. On March 25 ...

Late last month, Meta was handed back-to-back defeats in two landmark social media trials, a New Mexico case accusing Meta of ...

In less than 24 hours, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg was dealt a pair of legal blows that will open up his company and his fellow social media giants to years of liability claims over the harm to users' ...

The recent jury verdicts against the social media companies Google and Meta violate the First Amendment. However unpopular ...

From infinite scrolling to AI algorithms, some students and youth advocates say the "addictive" architecture of social media has become more apparent after this week's landmark verdict against Meta ...

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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.

A Los Angeles courtroom is hosting what may become the most consequential legal challenge Big Tech has ever faced. This is an inflection point in the global debate over Big Tech liability: For the ...

Every design choice that social media platforms make nudges users toward certain actions, values, and emotional states. It is a design choice to offer a news feed that combines verified news sources ...