TikTok has confirmed its parent company, ByteDance, reached a confidential settlement with a Florida teenager who accused the ...

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota on Tuesday joined a wave of states suing TikTok, alleging the social media giant preys on young people with addictive algorithms that trap them into becoming ...

With children increasingly glued to their cellphones, Connecticut legislators are hoping to reduce potential harm with restrictions for those under 18. Lawmakers are pushing a detailed bill that would ...

Social media is designed to be addictive, jurors in a landmark trial against two of the largest social media companies have found. Research in recent years has increasingly suggested a causal link ...

Can the government regulate social media features because they are "addictive"? Jane Bambauer and I talk with Emory Law professor Matthew Lawrence about whether features like infinite scroll, ...

An expert witness in a case brought by a California woman against Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, testified that the design features of its social media apps are addictive, ...

Instagram head Adam Mosseri testified that 16 hours of daily scrolling isn’t “addiction” during a Los Angeles trial where Meta, TikTok, and YouTube face lawsuits over allegedly addictive algorithms.

With children increasingly glued to their cell phones, state legislators are hoping to reduce potential harm with restrictions for those under 18. Lawmakers are pushing a detailed bill that would ...