Stephen Colbert may be the latest flashpoint in the battle over media, free speech and President Donald Trump's low tolerance for bad press, but it's clear readers have been troubled by this moment in ...

Big Tech may be on the verge of its Big Tobacco moment. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, one of the leading architects of the modern online world, testified for the first time before a jury this week over ...

Shares in President Trump's namesake media company slid Tuesday to their lowest level since going public in March 2024, via a merger with shell company Digital World Acquisition Corp. Trump Media & ...

Veteran sports columnist Christine Brennan remembers when male colleagues used to laugh at her for insisting on covering women’s sports back in the 1990s. “It was absolutely infuriating to me,” said ...

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified Wednesday in a landmark social media and safety trial. Zuckerberg said increasing engagement on Instagram was not a company goal. The judge threatened to hold anyone ...

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Is social media addictive to young people? A jury in California is being asked to decide — even though the question still divides researchers. The jury will grapple with two main questions, says Eric ...

LOS ANGELES — The head of Instagram, Adam Mosseri, defended the platform in court Wednesday, arguing that social media platforms are not intentionally engineered to be addictive. “I think it’s ...

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, ...

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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 ...

Comparing social media platforms to casinos and addictive drugs, lawyer Mark Lanier delivered opening statements Monday in a landmark trial in Los Angeles that seeks to hold Instagram owner Meta and ...