That’s a lot of cat videos. YouTube has been crowned the world’s largest media company, riding a years-long wave of user-generated videos — including millions of cat videos — to surge past even Walt ...

A jury on Wednesday found that Meta and YouTube are liable for creating products that led to harmful and addictive behavior by young users, a landmark decision that could set a legal precedent for ...

Do you doomscroll? If so, you’re not alone. One 2024 survey found that almost a third of American adults regularly doomscroll—that is, swipe through endless social media feeds—and millennials and Gen ...

The Defense Department said Monday it will remove media outlets' office spaces from the Pentagon after a federal judge sided with The New York Times in a lawsuit challenging limits on reporters' ...

A jury found the companies harmed a young user with design features that were addictive and led to her mental health distress. By Cecilia Kang Ryan Mac and Eli Tan Cecilia Kang reported from ...

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 ...

LOS ANGELES — A jury found Meta and YouTube negligent in the design or operation of their social media platforms, producing a bellwether verdict in the first lawsuit to take tech giants to trial for ...

Media layoffs across the entertainment industry are hitting hard after last year’s avalanche of job cuts. The unfortunate trend can still be felt following the Covid-19 pandemic, dual Hollywood ...

LOS ANGELES, March 25 (Reuters) - A Los Angeles jury on Wednesday found Meta (META.O), opens new tab and Alphabet's (GOOGL.O), opens new tab Google negligent for designing social media platforms that ...

Telling people exactly how voting security works helps defeat election misinformation, experiments suggest. But outside experts question how well that works in the real world ...

The Federal Communications Commission has signed off on broadcast station owner Nexstar’s $6.2 billion deal to acquire rival company Tegna, a merger that would create the largest operator of local ...

Two court verdicts this week spotlight the risks for teens from using social media — focusing on not just the content but the design of the platforms. On Wednesday a California jury held Google and ...