A jury on Wednesday found that Meta and YouTube are liable for creating products that led to harmful and addictive behavior by young users, a landmark decision that could set a legal precedent for ...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A jury found both Meta and YouTube liable in a first-of-its-kind lawsuit that aimed to hold social media platforms responsible for harm to children using their services. The ...
Do you doomscroll? If so, you’re not alone. One 2024 survey found that almost a third of American adults regularly doomscroll—that is, swipe through endless social media feeds—and millennials and Gen ...
Australia’s world-first national legislation to restrict access to social media accounts for children under 16 years old has been in force for about three months. New data from a survey of 1,070 ...
The influential financial research firm MoffettNathanson suggests that the Google-owned video platform passed Disney's media business in 2025. By Alex Weprin Senior Editor YouTube‘s cultural influence ...
President Trump said in a recent executive order that the policy of the U.S. is “to promote democracy, the principle of free expression and press, the rule of law, and respect for human rights ...
Account manager Matt Richards, 23, deleted all his social media apps from his phone last year, and was surprised to find that his life changed for the better. Richards had been using a smartphone ...
Annalee Schott used to live in rural Colorado where the farm, the barn, and the horses were her happy place. But online she was drawn into a dark world. The 18-year-old’s TikTok algorithm allegedly ...
Alain Sherter is a senior managing editor with CBS News. He covers business, economics, money and workplace issues for CBS MoneyWatch. Trump Media & Technology is merging with fusion energy company ...
Trump Media and Technology Group announced a merger agreement with fusion power company TAE Technologies valued at more than $6 billion. The all-stock deal, expected to close in mid-2026, will result ...
A new campaign dubbed 'GhostPoster' is hiding JavaScript code in the image logo of malicious Firefox extensions with more than 50,000 downloads, to monitor browser activity and plant a backdoor. The ...
You’re reading Fault Lines, Jay Caspian Kang’s weekly column on politics and the media. Media is a famously myopic and sclerotic industry. The big changes that take place within it often go unnoticed, ...