Court clears way for social media addiction suits against tech giants
Appeals court ruling could open the door to a flood of litigation against Google, Meta and other social media players.
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Appeals court ruling could open the door to a flood of litigation against Google, Meta and other social media players.
The families of four children who died by suicide allege that using social media led to depression, anxiety and other mental health problems.
A 26-year-old Minnesota teacher is accused of sending a high school student sexually explicit images via Snapchat.
Authorities in western Wisconsin say a teenage boy is dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound days after shooting his pregnant girlfriend and uploading a video of the violence to social media.
A woman who lived next door to where the shooting happened said it stemmed from a domestic situation.
Parents in a Wisconsin school district are being warned about a video of a shooting uploaded to Snapchat.
The lawsuit was filed earlier this year by several tribal nations, including Minnesota's Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin and two other tribes in the Dakotas.
When Bart and Krista Halderson suddenly disappeared in July 2021, their son, Chandler, alerted police. A search of a popular social media app helped lead investigators to a gruesome discovery.
Minnesota's Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa has joined a lawsuit with other tribal nations alleging social media companies have exacerbated the mental health crisis engulfing Native American teenagers.
A congressional crackdown on social media sites selling illicit fentanyl to kids. That's the new push from Minnesota's own Sen. Amy Klobuchar and Rep. Angie Craig. Caroline Cummings explains what the legislation does and how one Hastings family is at the center of the fight.
"More than 30% of people that get fentanyl, it's off of social media. These drug dealers that are using social media...They don't really care if anyone dies, they're anonymous behind an app, behind a website," Sen. Klobuchar said.
Kids across the country have overdosed on deadly drugs bought on social media, like Snapchat. Others have committed suicide after being blackmailed with their most private photos. Parents and lawmakers today wanted to know, what are these tech companies going to do about it?
Police say a Twin Cities teenager's social media account made him easy to track down after some troubling threats.
Dr. Vivek Murthy urged policymakers and tech companies to take "immediate action" to protect young people.
