A high-stakes trial sparked by a California woman who first logged onto social media at age 10. Another lawsuit in Georgia filed by a school district despairing at distracted students. Dozens more ...

Social media addiction has been compared to casinos, opioids and cigarettes. While there’s some debate among experts about ...

On the Monday, February 2, 2026, episode of The Excerpt podcast: A landmark trial asks whether social media giants like Meta knowingly designed addictive platforms, and if they can be held legally ...

This week, a major trial kicked off in Los Angeles in which hundreds of families sued Meta, TikTok, Snap, and YouTube, accusing the companies of intentionally designing their products to be addictive ...

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 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, ...

For years, big tech companies have placed the burden of managing screen time squarely on individuals and parents, operating on the assumption that capturing human attention is fair game. Meta and ...

The lawsuit claims that social media companies may have borrowed behavioral techniques from gambling. This has caused their platforms to become addictive and harm young people. But how do you prove ...

Social media addiction has been compared to casinos, opioids and cigarettes. While there’s some debate among experts about the line between overuse and addiction, and whether social media can cause ...

A landmark trial over social media addiction is playing out in Los Angeles. The case is being brought against Meta and Google, the parent company of YouTube, by a plaintiff who says her excessive use ...

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is set to be grilled on Wednesday by lawyers who say social media services like Instagram were intentionally designed as "digital casinos" to hook young people, fueling a teen ...