Expanded privacy protections went into effect on July 1 under the Connecticut Data Privacy Act. Tong says the safeguards are ...

With children increasingly glued to their cellphones, Connecticut legislators are hoping to reduce potential harm with restrictions for those under 18. Lawmakers are pushing a detailed bill that would ...

TikTok has confirmed its parent company, ByteDance, reached a confidential settlement with a Florida teenager who accused the ...

Social media is designed to be addictive, jurors in a landmark trial against two of the largest social media companies have found. Research in recent years has increasingly suggested a causal link ...

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, ...

WASHINGTON — Sen. John Curtis is challenging major tech companies to alter their algorithm systems, accusing platforms of recommending content that could lead to radicalized behavior. During a hearing ...

New York Attorney General Letitia James has proposed new rules requiring social media companies to restrict addictive feeds and nighttime notifications for young people under the state’s new SAFE for ...

Can the government regulate social media features because they are "addictive"? Jane Bambauer and I talk with Emory Law professor Matthew Lawrence about whether features like infinite scroll, ...

Instagram head Adam Mosseri testified that 16 hours of daily scrolling isn’t “addiction” during a Los Angeles trial where Meta, TikTok, and YouTube face lawsuits over allegedly addictive algorithms.

With children increasingly glued to their cell phones, state legislators are hoping to reduce potential harm with restrictions for those under 18. Lawmakers are pushing a detailed bill that would ...