Social media companies pay $27 million to settle Kentucky school district's lawsuit over social media harms, records showMeta settled the case brought by Breathitt County School District on May 21, a few weeks before a planned June trial, following earlier set...
30 May, 2026, 07.04 AM IST
ETtech Explainer: Why Google was fined Rs 30 lakh in Hindware trademark caseGoogle must pay Hindware 30 lakh rupees. The Delhi High Court ruled Google infringed on Hindware's trademark. Google is permanently stopped...
30 May, 2026, 06.59 AM IST
Meta settles social media addiction case brought by rural Kentucky school districtSocial media giants, including Meta, TikTok, Snap, and Google's YouTube, have settled the first of many lawsuits filed by school districts....
22 May, 2026, 04.39 PM IST
6-year-old Norway boy finds ‘rusty metal’ on class excursion; it turns out to be 1,300-year-old pre-Viking swordA six-year-old boy in Norway discovered a 1,300-year-old sword from the pre-Viking era during a school trip. The ancient weapon, found in a...
22 May, 2026, 09.26 AM IST
New York, California pension leaders oppose 'extreme' SpaceX control structureUS pension funds are raising significant red flags regarding SpaceX's imminent entry into the stock market. Leaders from California and New...
15 May, 2026, 01.16 AM IST
Big payout alert: iPhone 16 users owed millions after Apple Siri lawsuit - are you eligible?Apple has agreed to a $250 million class-action settlement in the United States over allegations that it misled consumers about Siri and Ap...
06 May, 2026, 06.43 PM IST
Meta pulls ads aimed at recruiting plaintiffs for social media addiction lawsuitsAt the end of March, a Los Angeles jury found Meta and Alphabet's Google liable for a young woman's depression and suicidal thoughts afte...
10 Apr, 2026, 09.52 AM IST
Meta faces $310 billion market value drop on legal, AI concernsShares of the Facebook and Instagram parent are down 19% this month, putting them on pace for their worst performance since October 2022. T...
30 Mar, 2026, 06.36 PM IST
Meta, Google declared 'Digital Drug' dealersA California court ruled Google and Meta harmed a minor's mental health through addictive design, drawing parallels to tobacco litigation. ...
26 Mar, 2026, 11.01 PM IST
Meta, Google risk big tobacco-like fallout after addiction trialWhile the $6 million in damages a jury in Los Angeles awarded to the 20-year-old plaintiff — which the companies vowed to appeal — will bar...
26 Mar, 2026, 09.30 AM IST
Jury reaches verdict in Meta, Google trial on social media addictionA Los Angeles jury reached a verdict on Wednesday in a landmark social media addiction trial that involves Meta's Instagram and Google's Yo...
25 Mar, 2026, 11.34 PM IST
What could come next for other social media firms as a jury finds Meta platforms harm childrenA New Mexico jury has fined Meta 375 million dollars. This is the first verdict in child safety trials against social media companies. The ...
25 Mar, 2026, 09.11 PM IST
Zuckerberg, Meta directors agree to $190 million settlement of shareholder privacy caseMark Zuckerberg and current and former leaders of Meta Platforms agreed to pay the company $190 million to resolve shareholder allegations ...
22 Nov, 2025, 09.24 PM IST
Facebook’s $725 Million Privacy Settlement payment begins: What it is the highest & lowest payouts users will receiveMeta Platforms Inc., the parent company of Facebook, has begun distributing payments from its USD 725 million privacy settlement. Newly fil...
12 Sep, 2025, 04.14 PM IST
Meta agrees to pay $25 million in settlement to Donald Trump after it suspended his Facebook account in 2021A recent and huge development is coming to light which is Meta has eventually agreed to pay a whopping $25 million as the settlement amount...
30 Jan, 2025, 08.59 PM IST
Meta pushes back on US FTC's bid to amend 2020 privacy settlementMeta disclosed the bugs in July 2019, the Facebook-parent said in a filing on Thursday, adding it had spent $5.5 billion on its privacy pro...
05 Apr, 2024, 08.18 AM IST
Facebook agrees to safeguards in ad discrimination caseUnder terms of a deal that must still be approved by a court, Meta will use artificial intelligence to make sure ads cross demographics to ...
22 Jun, 2022, 08.05 AM IST