A question by jurors in a landmark social media addiction trial on Friday signaled Meta or YouTube may have to pay for ...

After about a month of hearing from addiction experts, therapists, platform engineers and executives, including Mark ...

I tested two gadgets designed to make me unplug: the Brick and the Unpluq Tag. A week later, I learned more about my tech habits than I expected.

As courts and psychologists grapple with screen addiction, an AA-style group convenes twice a week in Cambridge to confront the screens they say have taken over their lives They gathered one recent ...

Social media addiction has been compared to casinos, opioids and cigarettes. While there’s some debate among experts about the line between overuse and addiction, and whether social media can cause ...

We continue our conversation with attorney Laura Marquez-Garrett and victim advocates Lori Schott and Lennon Torres about their fight to hold tech giants accountable for the damaging and even deadly ...

The government has launched £20m worth of grants for technology to help fight drug and alcohol addiction in the UK. The funding, which will be delivered through Innovate UK, aims to support the ...

Tween Screen Addiction Linked To Mental Health Problems, Substance Use By Dennis Thompson HealthDay ReporterFRIDAY, Feb. 13, 2026 (HealthDay News) — Tweens addicted to the digital world — mobile ...

Emma Fenske, DO does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

The head of Instagram has defended his platform against claims it caused mental health damage to minors, arguing in a California court that even seemingly excessive use of social media does not equal ...

The app said in opening statements that it was more of an entertainment platform. The lawsuit claims social media companies design products that cause personal injury. By Eli Tan and Cecilia Kang Eli ...

Lawyers for a now-20-year-old woman argued that addictive features harmed her mental health as opening statements began Monday in a landmark trial against Meta and YouTube, the first of hundreds of ...