Parent lawsuits alleging social media’s addictive design fueled the teen mental health crisis are heading to trial.

Defendants in the suit are Alphabet, ByteDance and Meta, the tech titans behind YouTube, TikTok and Instagram.

The bellwether trial in California Superior Court, Los Angeles County involves a 19-year-old woman from California, who says ...

Snap settled before jury selection in a landmark social media addiction case, while Meta, ByteDance, and YouTube still face ...

The attorneys didn’t provide information in open court about the dollar value or other terms of the settlement but said paperwork should be filed with the court by the end of the week.

The settlement means Snap will avoid a trial where plaintiffs had planned to argue that social media platforms are inherently ...

(Bloomberg/Madlin Mekelburg and Maia Spoto) — Meta Platforms Inc., ByteDance Ltd., Alphabet Inc. and Snap Inc. must face trial over claims that they designed social media platforms to addict youths, a ...

Meta brought the case to Massachusetts' high court Friday to challenge a Suffolk Superior Court judge's October 2024 decision denying its bid to escape a suit alleging it misled consumers on the ...

Yokubonis is a content creator who goes by the name Olivia Unplugged online, making videos to combat overuse or mindless use ...

Snap is still a defendant in similar cases related to social media addiction.