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...
Man Receives 7 Years in Prison for Setting Fire Due to Anger Over TikTok Ban March 10, 2026 By Todd Richmond A Wisconsin man who allegedly told police he tried to set fire to a Republican congressman’s office last year because...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Meta, TikTok Win Challenge Against EU Tech Fees, Forcing Regulators to Recalculate September 10, 2025 By Foo Yun Chee Meta Platforms and TikTok on Wednesday won a legal challenge to the way EU regulators calculated a supervisory fee imposed...
Minnesota Sues TikTok Over Addictive Algorithms August 21, 2025 By Steve Karnowski Minnesota on Tuesday joined a wave of states suing TikTok, alleging the social media giant preys on young people with...