Mumbai HC orders Meta, X and Google to take down posts against Nitin Gadkari following lawsuitThe Bombay High Court has mandated an immediate removal of offensive and defamatory posts from social media, labeling them as abusive and o...
05 Aug, 2026, 04.31 PM IST
TikTok settling three teen social media lawsuits ahead of trialTikTok has agreed to settle three lawsuits concerning addictive platform designs. Young plaintiffs alleged social media platforms harmed th...
04 Aug, 2026, 08.22 AM IST
Buy, scan, destroy: AI firms are shredding millions of books to train their chatbotsAI companies are buying, cutting apart and scanning millions of physical books to train chatbots, according to a Washington Post report bas...
31 Jul, 2026, 01.25 PM IST
Meta disregarded its own research on teen harm, Tennessee tells juryThe lawsuit, filed by Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti's office, seeks financial penalties and a court order directing Instagra...
28 Jul, 2026, 07.28 AM IST
Eternal’s robust Q1; Meta faces content-blocking allegationsEternal reported a jump in its net profit on the back of Blinkit's improving operating performance. This and more in today’s ETtech Morning...
23 Jul, 2026, 07.54 AM IST
Teen plaintiff suing Meta over mental health harms drops his claims against company days before trialThe lawsuit, brought by a 15-year-old boy known as R.K.C., originally named four defendants, Google's YouTube, Meta's Instagram, Snap Inc...
23 Jul, 2026, 12.10 AM IST
Eternal Q1 profit jumps 4x; Meta blocks Delhi protest contentEternal reported a significant jump in its revenue and profit for the first quarter of FY27. This and more in today’s ETtech Top 5.
22 Jul, 2026, 07.59 PM IST
Meta employees' lawsuit shows that if AI fires you, proving it is the hard partA Meta Platforms lawsuit claims AI tools unfairly targeted employees for layoffs. Workers face difficulties proving AI discrimination due t...
22 Jul, 2026, 05.12 PM IST
Meta faces Tennessee trial over allegations Instagram was designed to be addictiveTennessee accuses the company of violating the state's consumer protection law by knowingly designing a product that drives teens to compul...
20 Jul, 2026, 08.05 PM IST
US judge won't block Meta from laying off workers who filed AI discrimination lawsuitDistrict Judge William Orrick in Oakland, California, in a written order said he would not stop Meta from carrying out the layoffs beginnin...
17 Jul, 2026, 11.08 PM IST
Meta used AI to target workers with medical conditions for layoffsTwenty-six former Meta employees filed a lawsuit alleging AI-driven layoffs discriminated against disabled workers. The suit claims the com...
15 Jul, 2026, 02.36 PM IST
Meta employees sue, alleging AI-driven layoff picks hit workers on medical, parental leaveMeta faces a lawsuit from twenty-six employees alleging AI selection for layoffs. These workers claim the company's systems unfairly target...
15 Jul, 2026, 02.18 PM IST
Publishers accuse Google of stealing copyrighted content in new lawsuitMultiple book publishers sued Google on Tuesday for allegedly stealing copyrighted content, using it to train artificial intelligence (AI) ...
15 Jul, 2026, 07.05 AM IST
New York Times-led group asks court to sanction OpenAI in US copyright disputeNewspapers have asked a federal court to sanction OpenAI for allegedly lying about its AI training data. They claim OpenAI falsely stated i...
09 Jul, 2026, 08.26 PM IST
Australia's teen social media ban fails to clear first hurdle in age checks, says studyAustralian online platforms are failing initial age checks for a teen social media ban. Studies show most under-16s can still access platfo...
07 Jul, 2026, 01.25 PM IST
Meta says US states are seeking $1.4 trillion in penalties in August youth safety trialMeta put forward the figure in its response to the attorneys general's filings on how penalties should be calculated if the states prevaile...
07 Jul, 2026, 09.52 AM IST
Denmark intervenes in EU court case over publishers' rightsDenmark has stepped in at the European Court of Justice to back Belgium in a crucial case against tech giants like Google and Meta. The Dan...
06 Jul, 2026, 03.54 PM IST