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Jury finds Meta and YouTube liable in landmark youth addiction case

By John Yang, Jackson Hudgins

Jury reaches verdict in Meta, Google trial on social media addiction, in Los Angeles

Instagram and YouTube found liable in landmark social media addiction trial in California

A jury found both 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.

By Kaitlyn Huamani, Barbara Ortutay, Associated Press

What legal experts say about a major 'bellwether trial' over child social media addiction

A California woman is accusing major social media companies of designing their products to be addictive, especially to children.

By Hannah Grabenstein

FILE PHOTO: A teenager poses holding a mobile phone displaying a message from TikTok in Sydney

Social media platforms removed 4.7 million accounts after Australia banned them for children younger than 16

The figures, reported to Australia's government by 10 social media platforms, were the first to show the scale of the landmark ban since it was enacted in December over fears about the effects of harmful online environments on young people.

By Charlotte Graham-McLay, Associated Press

The National Menorah is lit on the National Mall

White House website mysteriously streams personal finance YouTube creator

The livestream sharing commentary on investing appeared for at least eight minutes late Thursday on whitehouse.gov/live, where the White House usually streams live video of the president speaking.

By Associated Press

The Oscars will move to YouTube in 2029, leaving longtime broadcasting home ABC

By Jake Coyle, Associated Press

ABC will continue broadcasting the event until 2028, which will mark the 100th Oscars. This shift announced Wednesday represents a significant move for one of television's marquee events. S…

YouTube to pay $24.5 million to settle lawsuit over Trump's account suspension after Jan. 6 attack

By Barbara Ortutay, Michael Liedtke, Associated Press

Alphabet, the parent of Google, is the third major technology company to settle a volley of lawsuits that Trump brought for what he alleged had unfairly muzzled him after his first term as president ended in January 2021.

Nepal police open fire on crowd protesting social media ban, killing at least 17 people

By Binaj Gurubacharya, Associated Press

Protesters pushed through barbed wire and forced riot police to retreat inside the Parliament complex.

Nepal blocks Facebook, X, YouTube and others for failing to register with the government

By Associated Press

Nepal's Minister for Communication and Information Prithvi Subba Gurung said about two dozen social network platforms that are widely used in Nepal were repeatedly given notices to come forward and register their companies officially in the country.