A 20-year-old California woman told a Los Angeles court Thursday that years of social media addiction beginning in early childhood left her struggling with anxiety, depression, and body image issues in a case testing whether tech giants can be held liable for alleged harm to young users.
Instagram head Adam Mosseri testified in a Los Angeles courtroom Wednesday that while “problematic” social media usage exists, he does not believe it constitutes clinical addiction.
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta and Google’s YouTube are defending themselves in a Los Angeles courtroom against accusations that they intentionally designed their platforms to addict young users, as opening statements began Monday in a landmark trial that could reshape how social media companies operate.
Numbers don’t lie. The Turning Point USA (TPUSA) All-American Halftime show kicked off Sunday night and has now been hailed as a “massive success” with its strong viewership lauded as a “shot across the bow” for the NFL’s official broadcast.
Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos testified on Capitol Hill this week where he defended his company’s $83 billion merger deal with Warner Bros.
The NFL has named Youtube creator Dhar Mann as its first “Chief Kindness Officer” to help promote sportsmanship, empathy, and positivity.
The truly unwatchable “Star Trek: Starfleet Academy” is bombing even on Paramount+, its own streaming home.
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta, China’s TikTok, and Google’s YouTube are set to face their first courtroom trial this week over allegations that their platforms have contributed to a youth mental health crisis through addictive design features.
Snap, the parent company of social media platform Snapchat has reached a settlement agreement in a major social media addiction lawsuit, avoiding what would have been the first trial testing claims that tech platforms deliberately designed products to addict young users.
President Donald Trump blasted ex-CNN anchor Don Lemon for storming into a Minnesota church with left-wing protesters to target a pastor who serves as a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) official.
YouTube has more viewers than all BBC channels combined, industry figures reveal, yet Britain’s TV tax -seems unlikely to be abolished.
Popular child education YouTuber “Ms. Rachel,” known for embracing Free Palestine and other left-wing causes, was joined by the mayor of New York City to promote his new socialist childcare program.
Low-quality AI-generated content is saturating YouTube, generating an estimated $117 million in revenue annually, according to new research. The study found that more than 20 percent of the videos shown to new users on the platform fall into the category of low effort posts popularly known as “AI slop,” with many channels posting content aimed at children.
Starting in 2029, the irrelevant Oscars will have its annual irrelevant Academy Awards show broadcast on — lol — YouTube.
Australia’s ban on social media for children under 16 went into effect on Wednesday amid heavy resistance from the nation’s teenagers, ominous threats from regulators, and apprehension around the world.
Two 15 year-old Australian teenagers are challenging the country’s upcoming social media ban at the nation’s High Court, local outlets reported on Wednesday.
A legal filing released on Friday alleges that Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, halted internal research suggesting that people who stopped using its social media platforms experienced less depression and anxiety.
Police in Fujian province, China – the province closest to the nation of Taiwan – announced recently that it would offer bounties for information leading to the arrests of Taiwanese YouTuber Wen Tzu-yu, known as Pa Chiung, and rapper Chen Po-yuan, known as “Minnan Wolf.”
Nov. 12 (UPI) — A carriage dispute between Disney and YouTube TV costs Disney about $4.3 million per day and could cause YouTube TV to lose a fourth of its subscribers.
The broadcast dispute between Disney and YouTube TV is reportedly costing the Mouse House $30 million per week, according to Morgan Stanley.
ESPN’s ongoing carriage dispute with YouTubeTV has directly impacted the network’s ratings in a very negative way.
Those ten million dummies who subscribe to YouTube TV are still paying $83 a month for the service, but no longer have access to ABC, ESPN, or any Disney Grooming Syndicate channels.
Subscribers to YouTube TV have lost access to ESPN, ABC, and other Disney-affiliated channels after contract negotiations broke down on Thursday night.
Google’s YouTube is restructuring its products team in a major shift towards AI, offering voluntary buyout packages with severance to its U.S.-based employees.
A prolific influencer and YouTube video creator known as “Mr. Crafty Pants” has been charged by Kentucky authorities with nearly 30 counts of possessing and trading disturbing sexual images of children on a messenger app traditionally popular with teens.
New York City has filed a lawsuit against major social media companies, accusing them of contributing to a youth mental health crisis through the design and operation of their platforms.
President Donald Trump is urging the American Spanish-language network Univision to return to YouTube TV, saying its recent removal from the streamer will not fare well for Republicans in the 2026 midterms.
President Donald Trump has signed settlement papers that will require YouTube to pay $24.5 million to resolve a lawsuit after the company suspended the president’s account in January 2021 following the riot outside of the U.S. Capitol building.
Google on Tuesday promised to restore YouTube accounts that have been banned for political speech, and said that the Biden administration pressured Google to censor Americans that did not violate the video, in a letter to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH).
YouTube’s broadcast of the Chiefs-Chargers game in Brazil was, shall we say, designed for a certain crowd.
Wired reports that a secretive nonprofit organization with ties to a powerful leftist dark money group is quietly bankrolling a network of high-profile Democratic influencers, offering them up to $8,000 per month to join an astroturf machine pushing leftist talking points online.
FCC Chairman Brendan Carr has called on Google and Fox Corporation to resolve their ongoing carriage dispute, which threatens to remove several Fox channels from YouTube TV. Carr says removing Fox from YouTube TV would be a “terrible outcome” that would not only impact customers’ access to Fox News, but also major sporting events including college football and the kickoff of the NFL season.
YouTube has led as the top TV distributor in the United States for six straight months, further accelerating the cord-cutter revolution.
Fox Networks could go dark on YouTube TV this week over an ongoing carriage dispute, with less than two weeks to go before the NFL season kicks off.
Google’s YouTube has been secretly using AI to “enhance” users’ videos without their knowledge or consent, leading to a growing sense of unease among content creators.
The government of Qatar has blocked access to the popular gaming platform Roblox after a storm of complaints on social media about the safety of children playing the games.
Gaming giant Roblox has banned and threatened to sue a YouTuber known for confronting alleged predators on the online gaming platform. Roblox, massively popular with children and teens, has a troubled past filled with allegations of grooming and allowing predators to run rampant.
The government of South korea revealed on Sunday that leftist President Lee Jae-myung had proposed at a recent cabinet meeting a massive initiative to silence alleged “fake news” on YouTube.
The government of Australia has reversed its decision to grant YouTube an exemption from its sweeping ban on social media for children under 16. YouTube’s parent company Google is threatening legal action, but Australian officials vowed to push ahead with the ban.
Google said on Monday it has taken down almost 11,000 channels on YouTube for spreading propaganda. It allegedly linked 7,700 of them to China, and another 2,000 to Russia.
