Yokubonis is a content creator who goes by the name Olivia Unplugged online, making videos to combat overuse or mindless use of social media. For the most part, people who view her videos welcome the disruption from the endless loop of content, treating it as a wake-up call to get off their phones. Other times, they are snarky.

Starting this week, a series of trials will test a new legal strategy claiming that Meta, TikTok, Snap and YouTube caused personal injury through addictive products.

UpScrolled is a social media app that launched in 2025. It's now the No. 2 app on Apple's App Store as TikTok deals with glitches.

Jury selection was scheduled to began in L.A. County Superior Court on Tuesday in the first of a series of closely-watched lawsuits seeking to prove social apps inflict harm on children, but a last-minute agreement by TikTok left uncertainty around how the case would proceed.

“Anxiety, depression, self-harm” — and total dependency: Those are the “serious emotional harms” a family claims affected their daughter, identified only as KGM, in a bombshell lawsuit filed in 2023 against platforms including Instagram and YouTube.

A shift in India would align with ‌a growing global trend. Australia last year became the first nation to enforce a social media ban for children under 16.

India is one of the most critical growth markets for social media companies, which are now facing calls to limit access to young people, amid fears of "digital addiction".

OpenAI wants our social media feeds to feature even more AI. Its AI video generator Sora is getting its own social media app, powered by a newly updated version of its AI video model called Sora 2, the company announced Tuesday via livestream. The app will ...