Teenagers

A mob of teenagers swarmed Chicago’s Hyde Park on March 30, jumping onto cars and running through the streets. 

A group of young people ransacked a gas station in Sacramento, California, on March 19 leaving its manager and an employee in disbelief and suffering financial losses.

Two significant jury verdicts against major social media companies have opened the floodgates for thousands of pending lawsuits alleging that popular platforms endanger the mental health of children.

A Los Angeles jury has found Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta and Google’s YouTube liable in a groundbreaking lawsuit concerning harm to children using their platforms, awarding $3 million in damages to a young woman who claims social media addiction during childhood worsened her mental health.

Two Florida teens accused of plotting a gruesome “blood ritual” mass murder at their high school were caught on video cracking jokes and laughing in the back of a police car after they’d been apprehended.

The Georgia teen charged with fatally running over a teacher has broken his silence as more details emerge about the normally harmless high school prank that went tragically wrong.

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.

Chaos erupted on Wednesday in Ohio when students who were part of an anti-ICE walkout entered a Kroger grocery store.

The teenage female wrestler who was allegedly sexually assaulted by a transgender opponent is taking a stand for other young women in sports.

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.

A senior Meta researcher alerted company executives that as many as 500,000 minors could be targeted daily by online predators on Facebook and Instagram, according to internal documents unsealed ahead of a major New Mexico trial.

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta faces a trial this week in New Mexico. The lawsuit follows an undercover operation by New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez, a Soros-backed Democrat.

Sixteen-year-old Lequan Stephens was arrested Tuesday in connection with two shootings after being turned in to law enforcement by his father.

Five families from the UK are pursuing legal action against TikTok in a Delaware court, marking the first time British families have sued the social media company in American courts over the deaths of their children.

Australia’s social media ban barring children under 16 from using social media has sparked a global debate among parents about the need for similar measures in their own countries.

A recent Fox News poll reveals that about two-thirds of American voters and parents back the idea of banning teenagers under the age of 16 from social media and removing cellphones from K-12 classrooms.

Reddit has launched a legal battle against Australia’s world-leading ban on social media for users under the age of 16, filing a case in the high court just two days after the country implemented age restrictions on its platform.

A startling new study has revealed that 25 percent of teens surveyed in England and Wales are turning to AI chatbots for mental health support. This is especially concerning in the light of multiple lawsuits claiming that ChatGPT and other chatbots directly contributed to the suicides of young people who turned to the systems for help.

A New York City woman who is apparently as tough as nails has been hired to protect a McDonald’s restaurant in Queens from unruly teenagers. 

A report citing internal research from Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has found that vulnerable teens who reported feeling bad about their bodies were exposed to significantly more “eating disorder adjacent” content on Instagram compared to their peers.

A teenager shot his pregnant girlfriend and then fatally shot her brother who tried to protect her on Wednesday, law enforcement in Barron County, Wisconsin, said.

China’s TikTok actively pushes pornography and other sexual content on 13-year-old users, according to researchers who created fake accounts of young teens to see what the Chinese platform’s algorithm would suggest to them.

A transgender school bus driver in Charlotte, North Carolina, is accused of sexually assaulting several 14- and 15-year-old boys.

Two teenagers in Waycross, Georgia, are believed to have been struck by lightning and killed on July 10 during a fishing trip.

Five people were shot and ten others were run over or hit by cars around 3 a.m. Monday morning during what police described as an “impromptu” parking lot party.

Surveillance footage reportedly shows the fatal incident between high school students Austin Metcalf and Karmelo Anthony in Frisco, Texas, that occurred on April 2 at Kuykendall Stadium.

A high school graduate in Plantation, Florida, is getting tons of attention for an awkward stunt during his commencement ceremony on Sunday.

Officials with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) are growing more concerned about an online network called “764” that targets and extorts young people.

A federal judge has struck down an Ohio law that places limitations for social media usage on teens, marking another win for Big Tech companies fighting similar legislation across the country.

Bond has been reduced for a man in Nashville, Tennessee, who was charged with raping two teenage girls at gunpoint in 2024, a move that brought heavy criticism.

A recent survey conducted by the Pew Research Center has shed light on the shifting social media landscape among teenagers, with nearly half of them reporting being online almost constantly. Teens are moving away from X/Twitter and Facebook as they continue to embrace China’s TikTok as their platform of choice.

A Washington Post columnist on Tuesday appeared to agree with Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s (D) move to put tampons in boys’ restrooms, suggesting boys who give the menstrual products to girls would be more popular.

Research shared with the Wall Street Journal shows that Mark Zuckerberg’s Instagram floods the accounts of children as young as 13 with sexually suggestive videos within minutes of their creation, contradicting its claims of prioritizing age-appropriate content.

U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy wants social media platforms to use warning labels to help protect young people.

Two teens are accused of dognapping a dachshund named Milkshake from a New York apartment last month and trying to extort the owner for money.

A New Orleans, Louisiana, teenager has beaten the odds by becoming valedictorian of his high school while living in a homeless shelter.