Brazil fines TikTok $30 million in 'powerful signal' over child safetyBrazil's data protection agency on Tuesday fined TikTok nearly $30 million for failing to implement child safety measures in what it said w...
26 Aug, 2026, 10.15 AM IST
TikTok reaches $400 million settlement with US Justice Department over children's privacyTikTok has agreed to a $400 million settlement with the US Department of Justice. This resolution addresses allegations of violating federa...
22 Aug, 2026, 07.00 AM IST
Meta rejects claims it sought to hook children to Facebook, Instagram as landmark trial beginsFour lead states - California, Colorado, Kentucky and New Jersey - accused Meta of designing Facebook and Instagram to hook young users, fu...
19 Aug, 2026, 12.26 PM IST
Meta rejects allegations it sought to hook children as landmark trial beginsFour lead states - California, Colorado, Kentucky and New Jersey - accuse Meta of designing Facebook and Instagram to hook young users, fue...
19 Aug, 2026, 01.27 AM IST
What's the latest in the trials over claims social media is hurting children?The social media companies have denied allegations that their products have contributed to depression, anxiety, body-image issues and a bro...
12 Aug, 2026, 05.38 PM IST
Meta, 29 states head to court in biggest test yet of youth social media litigationThe trial in Oakland, expected to last seven weeks, will test Colorado, Kentucky, California and New Jersey's allegations that Meta designe...
12 Aug, 2026, 05.29 PM IST
Meta, YouTube, TikTok face thousands of lawsuits in the US over kids’ mental health: What we knowMajor social media firms face thousands of lawsuits across the United States. These legal actions allege platforms are designed to addict y...
12 Aug, 2026, 04.20 PM IST
US court rules Meta, other tech firms must face thousands of lawsuits over social media addictionThe San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected an appeal by Meta and TikTok seeking to overturn a lower court ruling re...
11 Aug, 2026, 07.34 AM IST
US appeals court allows thousands of lawsuits against social media companies over user addiction claims to proceedAn appeals court permitted thousands of lawsuits against social media firms to advance. These suits allege companies designed products to a...
10 Aug, 2026, 10.13 PM 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
Meta, TikTok can be sued by mother of NYC teen killed while 'subway surfing'Meta and ByteDance called Nazario's death "heartbreaking," but claimed immunity from user content under Section 230 of the federal Communic...
30 Jun, 2025, 07.54 PM IST
US court to hear challenges to potential TikTok ban in SeptemberA U.S. appeals court sets a fast-track schedule to consider challenges to a new law requiring ByteDance to divest TikTok's U.S. assets by J...
29 May, 2024, 09.58 AM IST
Tencent turns to ByteDance in gaming showdown with NetEaseTencent released on Friday mobile party game "DreamStar" that it hopes to challenge "Eggy Party", a similar offering from NetEase which has...
18 Dec, 2023, 11.56 AM IST
Executive fired from TikTok's Chinese owner says Beijing had access to app data in termination suitThe allegations were made in a complaint Friday by Yintao Yu, the head of engineering for ByteDance's US operations from August 2017 to Nov...
13 May, 2023, 06.44 PM IST
ByteDance says India's freeze on its bank accounts is harassmentIn the 209-page court filing lodged on March 25, ByteDance told the High Court in Mumbai the authorities acted against the company without ...
04 Apr, 2021, 03.40 PM IST
Trump says Oracle close to TikTok deal as ByteDance aims for majority ownershipPresident Donald Trump said on Tuesday he had heard Oracle Corp was very close to a deal over ByteDance's TikTok, even as sources said the ...
16 Sep, 2020, 09.49 AM IST
ByteDance investors seek to use stakes to finance TikTok bid - SourcesByteDance has been in talks to divest TikTok's North America, Australia and New Zealand operations to potential acquirers, including Micros...
24 Aug, 2020, 02.42 PM IST