Tech giants Meta and Google funded trusted children's brands to teach responsible tech use. This occurred even as their apps were designed ...

New Mexico prosecutors are demanding significant changes to Meta's social media platforms. This follows a jury verdict finding the company ...

Meta Platforms has sharply increased its capital spending outlook, underscoring its aggressive push into artificial intelligence even as it...

Meta Platforms is significantly increasing its investment in artificial intelligence infrastructure. This comes as the social media giant f...

European Union is launching an age-verification app to shield children online. India's Karnataka state has banned social media for under-16...

A California court ruled Google and Meta harmed a minor's mental health through addictive design, drawing parallels to tobacco litigation. ...

A Los Angeles jury reached a verdict on Wednesday in a landmark social media addiction trial that involves Meta's Instagram and Google's Yo...

A New Mexico jury has fined Meta 375 million dollars. This is the first verdict in child safety trials against social media companies. The ...

Judge Carolyn B. Kuhl said the jury should reach a verdict if ⁠it can, adding that the case will have to be retried with a new set of juror...

Some of the biggest players from Meta to TikTok are facing federal and state trials that seek to hold them responsible for harming children...

Confronted with multiple internal documents, Zuckenberg maintained that lawyers were "mischaracterising" the communications, which were pre...

Instagram's chief executive said Wednesday that social media was not "clinically addictive," refuting claims that the platform prioritised ...

The Addictive Learning Technology IPO, a professional upskilling and career services edtech platform, opens for subscription today. The IPO...

Startup grouping IndiaTech writes to IT minister to set standards similar to the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB). IndiaTech want...

Tech workers finding ways to wean themselves off the internet, with a deliberate and phased fasting.

In 2016, over 19.5% adolescents in Bengaluru were addicted to gaming, and 15.5% to mobile phones.

Developed by SHUT at Nimhans, the module is the brainchild of Prasad Reddy , a second year PhD student at the Department of Psychiatric Soc...