A Massachusetts high court ruled Friday that the state attorney general’s social media addiction case against Meta Platforms ...

A Los Angeles jury delivered a rare verdict against Silicon Valley giants Wednesday — the second finding in two days — boosting hopes of safety advocates that courts will deliver a long-sought ...

Indians collectively spent 1.1 trillion hours staring at their smartphones in 2024 — an average of five hours a day per ...

The jury in a landmark social media addiction trial on Wednesday found Meta and YouTube liable for creating products that led to harmful and addictive behavior in young users. Scott Stein, editor at ...

Licensed mental health counselor and President of ThinkWell+ Counseling and Wellness Dr. Jada Jackson says what was once considered online leisure is changing. Senate strikes late-night deal to fund ...

THE ECONOMY YOU NEVER SIGNED UP FOR What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients.

Recent rulings against Meta and YouTube are rewriting the story of social media addiction, making it important for clinicians ...

Ireland’s chronic addiction to multinational tech cash was cruelly, humiliatingly exposed during the fuel protests and in ...

Is social media addiction real? A new study explores the brain changes and psychological impacts of excessive use following a landmark $6 million California court ruling.

A California jury on Wednesday found social media giants Meta and YouTube liable in a landmark social media addiction trial, determining the companies were negligent in their design or operation of ...

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 ...

I write quite a lot about the interaction of technology and addiction. Typically, I’m focused on the ways in which technology serves as a driver for addiction. For instance, digital technologies are ...