A Los Angeles jury has found Alphabet’s Google and Meta liable for $6 million in damages in a landmark social media addiction lawsuit. The case involved a 20-year-old woman who said she became ...

Here are the 2025-26 Illinois all-state girls basketball teams as voted on by a statewide panel of sportswriters and broadcasters. Each voter picked a five-player first team and a five-player second ...

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Collin Walke who leads Hall Estill's Cybersecurity & Data Privacy practice, discusses the jury verdict against Meta and YouTube in a landmark social media addiction ...

Alex Hogan is STAT’s senior multimedia producer and host of STATus Report, STAT’s weekly video series. You can follow him on Bluesky. A jury in Los Angeles has found social media giants Google and ...

Legacy media continues to decline as a source for breaking news, but it still beats out other channels, particularly AI chatbots, judging by a study from Pew Research Center. This isn’t good news: ...

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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 ...