‘Massive Legal Siege’ Against Social Media Companies Looms October 21, 2025 By Olivia Carville Thousands of plaintiffs’ complaints, millions of pages of internal documents and transcripts of countless hours of depositions are about to...
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...
Italian Families Target Facebook, Instagram and TikTok Over Child Safety October 8, 2025 By Giselda Vagnoni A group of Italian families has filed a lawsuit against Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok, accusing the platforms of failing to...
Supreme Court Rejects Bid to Sue Meta Over Church Shooting October 6, 2025 By Greg Stohr The US Supreme Court declined a chance to open social media companies to lawsuits over content recommended by their algorithms,...
French Lawmaker Asks Prosecutor to Probe TikTok for ‘Endangering the Lives’ of Users September 11, 2025 The chairman of a French parliamentary committee investigating TikTok’s psychological effects on minors said on Thursday that he had asked...
Google Settles YouTube Children’s Privacy Lawsuit for $30 Million August 21, 2025 By Jonathan Stempel Google will pay $30 million to settle a lawsuit claiming it violated the privacy of children using YouTube by collecting...
New York Court Blocks Suit Against Social Media Giants Over Buffalo Racial Massacre July 28, 2025 By Andrew G. Simpson Social media companies cannot be sued for their alleged roles in a racially-motivated mass shooting at a grocery store in...
French Families Sue TikTok Over Teen Suicides They Say Are Linked to Harmful Content January 24, 2025 By Tom Nouvian In the moment when her world shattered three years ago, Stephanie Mistre found her 15-year-old daughter, Marie, lifeless in the...
Damages Upheld for Man Whose Ex-Girlfriend Shared Nude Photo Without Permission January 17, 2025 A Massachusetts man who sued his ex-girlfriend over her sharing an unflattering nude photo of him and accessing his personal...
Meta’s Zuckerberg Not Liable in Lawsuits Over Social Media Harm to Children November 12, 2024 By Jonathan Stempel A federal judge said Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg is not personally liable in 25 lawsuits accusing his company of...