Meta Settles First Case Over School Costs Tied to Youth Mental Health: Court Filing May 22, 2026 By Courtney Rozen and Dietrich Knauth Meta Platforms on May 21 settled the first case set for trial seeking to make social media companies cover the...
Snap, YouTube, TikTok Settle School Suit Targeting Social Media May 18, 2026 By Alexandra S. Levine and Madlin Mekelburg Snap Inc., Google’s YouTube and ByteDance Ltd.’s TikTok reached agreements to settle the first lawsuit headed to trial over claims...
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...
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...