Meta Must Face Massachusetts Lawsuit Alleging Social Media Harms Children April 13, 2026 By Andrew G. Simpson Social media giant Meta Platforms must face a lawsuit by the state of Massachusetts alleging that it knowingly designed its...
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...
Meta Ordered to Pay $375M After Trial Over Child Exploitation, User Safety March 25, 2026 By Diana Novak Jones A New Mexico jury on Tuesday found Meta Platforms violated state law in a lawsuit brought by the state attorney...
Meta Loses Insurance for Defense in Major Social Media Addiction Litigation March 3, 2026 By Andrew G. Simpson A Delaware judge has ruled insurers do not have a duty to defend Meta Platforms in the thousands of lawsuits...
UK Eyes Rapid Ban on Social Media for Under 16s, Curbs to AI Chatbots February 17, 2026 By David Milliken and Sam Tabahriti Britain could bring in an Australian-style ban on social media for children under 16 as early as this year and...
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...
TikTok Charged for Breaching EU Rules With App’s Addictive Features February 9, 2026 By Foo Yun Chee TikTok was charged on Friday with breaching EU online content rules over what the bloc’s regulator said were its addictive...
Move to Ban Social Media for Kids Gains Traction Across Europe February 4, 2026 By Shona Ghosh and Daniel Basteiro European countries are taking their broadest swipe yet at social media, with a growing number weighing bans of the services...
EU Opens Probe Into X Over Grok’s Production of Sexualized Imagery, Lawmaker Says January 26, 2026 By Foo Yun Chee and Sam Tabahriti The European Commission has launched an investigation into Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok over the production of explicit imagery, Regina...