Basketball has always been a rush— speed, skill, heart pounding in every play. Now, tech is shaking things up in ways that would’ve sounded wild just a decade ago. The game hasn’t just evolved, it’s ...

Juries in two big cases have affirmed what research is finding: The design of social media platforms is particularly ...

For years, parents, teenagers, pediatricians, educators and whistleblowers have pushed the idea that social media is detrimental to young people’s mental health and can lead to addiction, eating ...

The tenacious families of social media victims celebrated the landmark verdict Wednesday that determined Meta and Google ...

Jurors found Meta and Google liable for building apps that inflicted mental-health problems on a teenager, and similar lawsuits are on the horizon.

"Do you remember the world before cellphones?" The question comes early in Your Attention Please, a documentary premiering this week at South by Southwest in Austin, Texas. And it hit me harder than I ...

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 ...

A young woman who is battling against social media giants took the stand Thursday to testify about her experience using the platforms as she was growing up, saying she was on social media "all day ...

Social media addiction has been compared to casinos, opioids and cigarettes. While there’s some debate among experts about the line between overuse and addiction, and whether social media can cause ...