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, ...

The world's biggest social media companies face several landmark trials this year that seek to hold them responsible for harms to children who use their platforms. Opening statements in one such trial ...

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 ...

Annalee Schott used to live in rural Colorado where the farm, the barn, and the horses were her happy place. But online she was drawn into a dark world. The 18-year-old’s TikTok algorithm allegedly ...

Australia recently decided to try something ambitious. Starting late last year, all children under 16 have been banned from having accounts on social-media sites such as TikTok, YouTube, and Instagram ...

Strip the types and hotwire the HTML—and triple check your package security while you are at it. JavaScript in 2026 is just getting started. I am loath to inform you that the first month of 2026 has ...

LOS ANGELES — The world’s biggest social media giants are heading to court for the first time in a wave of landmark trials that will determine whether their platforms are responsible for harming ...

A year of industry shakeups led to an increase in entertainment and media layoffs by 18% (Christopher Smith/TheWrap) After a slight dip in layoffs in 2024, the entertainment and media industry jobs ...

Media and entertainment is seeing a major shakeup in a burst of dealmaking from M&A to spinoffs, AI investment and leveraged buyouts, setting the stage for a pivotal 2026. Streaming consolidation, ...

Trump Media & Technology will merge with a fusion power company in an all-stock deal that the companies said Thursday is valued at more than $6 billion. Devin Nunes, the Republican congressman who ...

Alain Sherter is a senior managing editor with CBS News. He covers business, economics, money and workplace issues for CBS MoneyWatch. Trump Media & Technology is merging with fusion energy company ...

A new campaign dubbed 'GhostPoster' is hiding JavaScript code in the image logo of malicious Firefox extensions with more than 50,000 downloads, to monitor browser activity and plant a backdoor. The ...