California woman suing Meta, YouTube testifies social media took toll on mental health

By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES, Feb 26 (Reuters) - A young California woman suing Meta Platforms' Instagram and Google's YouTube ...

Landmark trial accusing social media companies of addicting children to their platforms begins

The world’s biggest social media companies face several landmark trials this year that seek to hold them responsible for ...
CBS News

Social media companies accused of "addicting the brains of children" as trial begins

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. Opening statements in one such trial ...
CNN

YouTube to be included in Australia’s social media ban for children under 16

Australia has picked a fight with the world’s largest video platform by backtracking on an earlier promise to exclude YouTube in its social media ban for children under 16. The Labor government said ...

"I wanted to be on it all the time," plaintiff says in social media trial

The 20-year-old plaintiff alleges that using YouTube and Instagram from a young age intensified her depression and led to suicidal thoughts.
The Straits Times

YouTube says it is not social media nor addictive in landmark trial

LOS ANGELES - A lawyer for YouTube insisted on Feb 10 that the Google-owned video platform was neither intentionally addictive nor technically social media, as a landmark US trial targeting tech ...