Platforms like Mrcheckpoint that combine both discovery and accessibility represent a growing model for how attorneys ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

A Los Angeles jury has awarded 20-year-old “Kaley” $6 million (£4.5 million) after finding Meta and Google intentionally built addictive platforms that severely harmed her mental health. The ...

The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our newsletters to have stories delivered to your inbox. Consider becoming a member to support our nonprofit journalism. Susan Gilkerson, ...

At least 61 of the made-up case reports were unwittingly cited in other peer-reviewed medical journals, creating hundreds more errors. Reading time 3 minutes A journal focused on child health and ...

LOS ANGELES, Feb 26 (Reuters) - A young California woman suing Meta Platforms' Instagram and Google's YouTube testified on Thursday in a landmark trial that her childhood social media addiction left ...

More than half of college students nationwide are lonely, according to new research from the University of Cincinnati, and those who use social media the most are particularly likely to feel isolated.

The world's biggest social media companies face several landmark trials this year that seek to hold them responsible for harms to children who use their platforms. Opening statements in one such trial ...

With a world literally and figuratively burning around them, high school social studies teachers are charged with engaging students in sensitive topics. Social studies curricula today, for example, is ...

For years, parents alleged that top social media companies had gotten teens hooked on their products with addictive design features, arguing in legal filings that these choices led to depression, ...