TikTok Settles Social Media Addiction Lawsuit Ahead of a Landmark Trial

The settlement means TikTok will avoid a trial where plaintiffs had planned to argue that social media platforms are ...

TikTok agrees to settle social media addiction trial involving Meta, YouTube moves forward

TikTok has agreed to settle with a plaintiff and will no longer be part of a high-profile social media trial kicking off on ...

Social Media Giants Face Landmark Legal Tests on Child Safety

Starting this week, a series of trials will test a new legal strategy claiming that Meta, TikTok, Snap and YouTube caused ...

TikTok settles as social media giants face landmark trial over youth addiction claims

TikTok has agreed to settle in a landmark social media addiction lawsuit just before the trial kicked off, the plaintiff’s ...

Is social media harmful for kids? Meta and YouTube face trial after TikTok settles suit

Jury selection was scheduled to began in Los Angeles Superior Court Tuesday in the first of a series of closely-watched ...

TikTok settles hours before landmark social media addiction trial starts

TikTok and Snapchat were also targeted by the lawsuit, but both have settled. The Snapchat settlement came last week, while ...
Psychology Today

The Hidden Mental Health Cost of News on Social Media

News doesn’t just inform; it affects how we feel. What are the psychological trade-offs of consuming news on social media?

Fox’s New Surging Thriller ‘Memory of a Killer’ Puts a Brutal Twist on the Iconic Hitman Story

Patrick Dempsey returns to network television in Memory of a Killer, the story of a hitman who gets diagnosed with early ...
Opinion

A kids' guide to phone-free fun, from the author of 'The Anxious Generation'

Jonathan Haidt's 2024 book made the case that screen time had "rewired" kids' brains. The Amazing Generation is a collab with science journalist Catherine Price and graphic novelist Cynthia Yuan Cheng ...