Social Media Isn’t Just Speech. It’s Also a Defective, Hazardous Product.

For two decades now, social media companies have been virtually untouchable, profitably floating above accusations that they ...

Lawyers in landmark social media addiction trial make final appeals to the jury

After about a month of hearing from addiction experts, therapists, platform engineers and executives, including Mark ...

Social Media Addiction Trial Nears End. Society Long Ago Rendered Its Verdict.

Closing arguments began Thursday in a landmark trial that put online behavior under a microscope. In many ways, it has ...
PolitiFact

Social media feeds are awash with Iran war misinformation. Here’s how to identify false imagery

Tal Hagin, an open-source intelligence analyst based in Israel, compiles misinformation and shares his findings on X daily. He said he’s seen people recycling footage of Iranian missile strikes in ...
CNBC

Countries are barring teens from social media—could the U.S. be next? One expert thinks it's 'inevitable'

In December 2025, Australia became the first country to bar anyone under 16 from keeping or making social media accounts. The penalty for companies violating the law is a fine of up to $49.5 million ...
The Economist

Should teenagers be banned from social media?

Our leader arguing that banning teenagers from using social media does more harm than good and the accompanying briefing touched off a lively debate among readers. Here is a selection of their letters ...
Associated Press

Social media companies face legal reckoning over mental health harms to children

Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Mark Zuckerberg appeared in a Los Angeles ...
NPR

Did social media break a generation — or just change it?

Is tech rewiring childhood or exposing what's already broken? Jonathan Haidt, Catherine Price, and a Gen Z advocate debate social media bans, attention and what "fun" looks like off-screen. Guests ...
CBS News

Mark Zuckerberg questioned on Meta's under-13 users and usage goals in landmark social media trial

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg faced questioning in a Los Angeles courtroom on Wednesday about Instagram's under-13 users and Meta's efforts to boost engagement, as a trial examines whether the company ...
CNN

Meta’s Zuckerberg testifies about social media’s effects on children in landmark trial

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg was grilled Wednesday about whether his company intentionally designed Instagram to be addictive, in front of the young woman accusing Meta and YouTube of hooking her as a ...
Mashable

Mark Zuckerberg in courtroom hot seat over social media dangers

The trial's plaintiff says social media platforms are intentionally designed to hook children for profit. Credit: Kyle Grillot / Bloomberg via Getty Images Mark Zuckerberg appeared before a jury today ...
CNBC

India discussing age-based restrictions with social media firms, top minister says

India is discussing age-based social media restrictions with social media companies, IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said Tuesday. Any crackdown in India, a country of 1.4 billion people, could have a ...