The verdict in a landmark lawsuit over addictive social media design—and a wave of similar cases against Meta, YouTube, TikTok, and Snap—could force Silicon Valley to confront whether its most powerful and “sticky” products are behaving like hard-to-kick drugs.

A landmark verdict is forcing a legal reckoning over whether tech addiction is real and harmful—even as clients at reSTART describe it as a force that has derailed their lives.

A jury has found Meta and YouTube liable in a first-of-its-kind lawsuit that aimed to hold social media platforms responsible for harm to children using their services.

The trial was one of several that social media companies face this year and beyond.

The verdict marks the end of a five-week trial on the addictive nature of social media platforms.

A jury reached a verdict in the L.A. trial focused on Meta and YouTube, a case that experts have characterized as social media's "Big Tobacco" moment.

Meta and Google were found liable in a landmark trial over whether social media apps like Instagram and YouTube are designed to get children addicted.

Landmark trial “shakes Big Tech to its core”; complaint argued companies knowingly designed addictive products that exposed children to harm.

A California jury has found Meta and YouTube liable for negligently designing addictive social media platforms that harm children, in a landmark verdict that could have lasting…

The verdict in a landmark lawsuit over addictive social media design—and a wave of similar cases against Meta, YouTube, TikTok, and Snap—could force Silicon Valley to confront…

The ruling could be the beginning of the end of social media as we know it, writes the BBC Technology Editor Zoe Kleinman.

The landmark decision in an LA court may go beyond immediate impacts on defendants Meta and YouTube.

Ruling that Meta and YouTube deliberately designed addictive products marks possible watershed moment for big tech