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

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.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At age six, Sarah Hill was handed her first iPad by her parents, which she used to play games like Angry Birds and Minecraft ...

If you, like many of us, spend most of your waking hours staring at screens—shuttling between work email, TikTok, YouTube, and group chats—you’ve probably wondered, at least half-jokingly, whether you ...

In a landmark ruling against Meta and YouTube this week, a Los Angeles jury determined that tech addiction is real—and dangerous. They awarded a combined $6 million in damages to a young woman who ...

A landmark trial over social media addiction is playing out in Los Angeles. The case is being brought against Meta and Google, the parent company of YouTube, by a plaintiff who says her excessive use ...

View post: 1976 No. 1 Hit Voted Worst Song of the ’70s in a Readers' Poll 'Toy Story 5' explores the impact of technology addiction on kids and toys. The toys unite to rescue children from obsessive ...

I write quite a lot about the interaction of technology and addiction. Typically, I’m focused on the ways in which technology serves as a driver for addiction. For instance, digital technologies are ...

The use of artificial intelligence and digital systems is emerging as a method to understand, identify and respond to addiction, demonstrating technology’s capacity to aid public health initiatives, ...

A Massachusetts high court ruled Friday that the state attorney general’s social media addiction case against Meta Platforms ...