US Supreme Court Denies Meta’s Challenge to Vermont Social Media Addiction Lawsuit May 26, 2026 By Andrew Chung The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Tuesday to hear a bid by Meta Platforms to avoid a lawsuit brought by...
TikTok Must Face Massachusetts Lawsuit Alleging It Harms Young Users May 11, 2026 By Andrew G. Simpson A Massachusetts trial court judge has denied TikTok’s bid to dismiss the lawsuit against it by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts...
US Jury Verdicts Against Meta, Google Tee Up Fight Over Tech Liability Shield March 26, 2026 By Diana Novak Jones Jurors in the first two trials in the U.S. from a growing wave of lawsuits targeting social media firms over...
Meta, Google Lose Case Over Social Media Harm to Kids March 26, 2026 By Dawn Chmielewski, Courtney Rozen and Jody Godoy A Los Angeles jury on Wednesday found Meta and Alphabet’s Google negligent for designing social media platforms that are harmful...
Texas AG Sues Snapchat for Alleged Inappropriate Material and Addictiveness February 12, 2026 By Stephen Simpson, The Texas Tribune Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Wednesday sued the company that owns Snapchat, accusing the social media organization of failing...
Social Networks Face Big Tobacco Moment Over Addiction Claims February 9, 2026 By Madlin Mekelburg and Maia Spoto Facebook, Google and other tech giants for more than a decade have rejected allegations that they build products deliberately to...
Massachusetts Court Hears Allegations Facebook Is Addictive to Young Users December 8, 2025 By Michael Casey Massachusetts’ highest court heard oral arguments Friday in the state’s lawsuit arguing that Meta designed features on Facebook and Instagram...
Virginia’s Lawsuit Against TikTok Gets Green Light to Proceed in State Court October 28, 2025 By Andrew G. Simpson Virginia’s lawsuit against TikTok and its China-based parent company ByteDance Ltd. will move forward in state court, despite TikTok’s efforts...
New York City Sues Social Media Firms For Allegedly Addicting Children October 9, 2025 By Jonathan Stempel New York City filed a new lawsuit accusing Facebook, Google, Snapchat, TikTok and other online platforms of fueling a mental...
Kansas Sues Snapchat for Deceptive Practices October 3, 2025 Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach announced that his office filed a lawsuit in Washington County District Court against social media...