Meta Buried ‘Causal’ Evidence of Social Media Harm, Court Filings Allege November 24, 2025 By Jeff Horwitz Meta shut down internal research into the mental health effects of Facebook after finding causal evidence that its products harmed...
How Big Tech Is Faring Against US Antitrust Lawsuits? November 19, 2025 By Jody Godoy A federal judge ruling that Meta Platforms does not hold an illegal social media monopoly handed Big Tech its first...
French Court Probes TikTok for Algorithms Pushing to Suicide November 5, 2025 French judicial authorities said on Tuesday they had opened an investigation into Chinese social media platform TikTok and the risks...
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...
‘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...