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IL officials react to Meta's social media addiction trial settlement

  • Aug 27
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Meta Platforms faces pivotal trial as opening statements begin

  • Aug 18
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Zuckerberg's yacht did not hear call for maritime assist: spokesperson

  • Aug 10
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Court orders Meta to pay $567M to address kids' mental health online

  • Aug 7

Nolan Wells' mother subpoenas social media companies seeking answers in son's death

  • Jul 29

Teen safety updates coming to Facebook, Instagram, Messenger

  • Jun 2

Meta to cut 8,000 jobs, 10% of staff as it pours billions into AI

  • Apr 24

Facebook should nix accounts that defraud, DA says

  • Apr 10

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Jury awards $6 million in damages in landmark social media addiction trial in Los Angeles

A jury found Meta and YouTube liable in a lawsuit that aimed to hold social media platforms responsible for harm to children using their services.

  • Mar 26

20-year-old plaintiff testifies she became addicted to social media as early as 6 in landmark trial

The woman - identified in court as KGM - is the key plaintiff in the case, which alleges she began using social media as young as age 6 and became dependent on the apps.

  • Feb 27

Instagram chief says he does not believe people can get clinically addicted to social media

Adam Mosseri, the head of Meta's Instagram, testified Wednesday during a landmark social media trial that he disagrees with the idea that people can be clinically addicted to social media platforms.

  • Feb 12
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Social media 'addicting the brains of children,' plaintiff's lawyer argues in landmark trial

The world's biggest social media companies face several landmark trials this year that seek to hold them responsible for harms to children who use their platforms.

  • Feb 10

Facebook, Instagram pages disabled after being wrongly accused of 'child endangerment,' owners say

In cases the ABC7 I-Team looked into, social media account holders said that they were wrongly accused of "child endangerment" and their Facebook and or Instagram pages disappeared.

  • Feb 5