In a pocket of spare time, you may reach for your phone to scroll social media - but how often do you end up spending more time here than you planned? You might beat yourself up for losing stretches ...

The multimillion-dollar verdict will grow, as the jury decided the companies acted with malice, or highly egregious conduct, meaning they will hear new evidence shortly and head back into the ...

Parents and campaign groups seeking tighter restrictions on social media have welcomed a Los Angeles jury handing down an ...

California jurors decide companies were negligent in the design or operation of their platforms, an outcome that could ...

Shoppers aren’t just scrolling through endless search results anymore; they are having direct conversations with AI to find ...

It's called the infinite scroll—a design feature on social media, shopping, video and many other apps that continuously loads ...

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Doomscrolling could itself be doomed if European Union regulators have their way. The European Commission is taking a historic stand against social media, ordering TikTok to disable infinite scrolling ...

Features woven into the fabric of platforms have been central to landmark social media harm case in US. How do they work? It was as “easy as ABC”, claimed the lawyer prosecuting a landmark social ...

A California jury has declared that social media giants Meta and YouTube were liable for harming a young woman by designing ...

'A phone ban may encourage young people to talk more face-to-face.' ...