US teen drops lawsuit against Meta, Google and Snap ahead of trialThe plaintiff, a 15-year-old girl from New Jersey identified in California court records as P. M-Y., had alleged the platforms' owners - Me...
21 Aug, 2026, 01.52 PM IST
Teen drops landmark social media addiction case against Meta, Google, SnapA 15-year-old girl dropped her lawsuit against Meta, Google, and Snap Inc. She had alleged social media addiction and mental health issues....
21 Aug, 2026, 06.42 AM 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
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
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
Google's YouTube settles case over social media harm to childrenThe terms of the settlement of the state court lawsuit were confidential, the lawyers said on Tuesday. The suit named four defendants - You...
24 Jun, 2026, 08.58 AM IST
Florida sues TikTok, claiming it violates state child safety lawThe lawsuit seeks a court order directing the platform, which is owned by ByteDance, to make changes to bring it into compliance with the l...
16 Jun, 2026, 07.19 AM IST
YouTube exec says goal was viewer value not addictionA landmark social media addiction trial resumed Monday with a YouTube executive insisting that the Google-owned company's aim was to give p...
24 Feb, 2026, 08.36 AM IST
'Massive legal siege' against social media firms loomsSeveral leading social media giants, including Snapchat, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube, are embroiled in high-stakes legal battl...
21 Oct, 2025, 12.03 AM IST
Meta's Zuckerberg not liable in lawsuits over social media harm to childrenUS District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers in Oakland, California rejected accusations on Thursday that Zuckerberg directed Meta's efforts to...
09 Nov, 2024, 04.56 PM IST
Judge dismisses some claims against Meta's Mark Zuckerberg over social media harmMeta CEO Zuckerberg wins dismissal in lawsuits alleging harm to children from Facebook and Instagram. Judge Rogers rules on personal liabil...
16 Apr, 2024, 09.13 AM IST
Tinder, other Match dating apps encourage compulsive use, claims lawsuitThe plaintiffs said Match's "predatory" business model defrauds those looking for love and fearful of missing out with an algorithm that re...
15 Feb, 2024, 09.08 AM IST
Social media giants 'big, bad monsters': US Families suing Big TechHundreds of families are suing social media giants like TikTok, Snapchat, YouTube and Meta (parent company of Instagram and Facebook) in th...
20 Nov, 2023, 02.01 PM IST
Meta versed in addictionMeta faces hundreds of legal claims from parents and families of children and teens who suffered mental health problems after using Faceboo...
28 Mar, 2023, 12.08 AM IST
Seattle schools sue tech giants over social media harmSeattle Public Schools filed the lawsuit Friday in US District Court. The 91-page complaint says the social media companies have created a ...
08 Jan, 2023, 06.23 PM IST