A California jury has found Meta and YouTube liable on all counts in a landmark case that accused the tech giants of intentionally addicting a young woman and injuring her mental health.

Is social media addiction real? A new study explores the brain changes and psychological impacts of excessive use following a landmark $6 million California court ruling.

On March 25, a California trial awarded $6 million to a plaintiff who argued that the addictive qualities of social media had ...

Social media addiction is characterized by excessive use of social media platforms, leading to significant impairment or ...

A US jury on Wednesday found Meta and YouTube must pay millions of dollars in damages, following a landmark trial that accused the tech giants of intentionally addicting a young woman and injuring her ...

In what legal observers have called social media’s “Big Tobacco Moment,” a jury has found that Meta and Google’s social media ...

The Facebook owner recently lost a landmark social media addiction trial in California ...

This is absolutely going to be one of the biggest days in this trial. Mark Zuckerberg taking the stand to testify for the first time before *** jury about these claims that his platforms have harmed ...

Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A jury in New Mexico found on Tuesday that the ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Adam Mosseri, the head of Meta’s Instagram, testified Wednesday during a landmark social media trial in Los Angeles that he disagrees with the idea that people can be clinically ...

Social media addiction has been compared to casinos, opioids and cigarettes. While there’s some debate among experts about the line between overuse and addiction, and whether social media can cause ...

The verdict, which caps a weeks-long trial in Los Angeles, could set a legal precedent for similar allegations brought ...