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Meta Trial: How Social Media Lawsuits Threaten Big Tech

A flood of lawsuits against social media giants claim that by engineering their platforms to be hard to resist, the companies are causing serious harm to young users. In the first personal injury case to go to trial, a Los Angeles jury in March found Meta Platforms Inc. and Google negligent in the design and operation of their platforms — awarding $6 million to a 20-year-old woman in a landmark verdict.
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LA Defeats DOJ Suit Claiming Sanctuary City Policy Fueled Riots

Los Angeles won a court order dismissing a Trump administration lawsuit claiming its sanctuary city ordinance helped fuel riots during 2025 protests against the president’s deportation crackdown.

Law enforcement officers confront protesters during a demonstration in Los Angeles in June 2025. Photographer: Kyle Grillot/Bloomberg
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How Lawsuits Alleging Social Media Harms Threaten Big Tech

A flood of lawsuits filed in recent years against social media giants claim that by engineering their platforms to be hard to resist, the companies are causing serious harm to young users. In the first case to go to trial, a jury in March found Meta Platforms Inc. and Google negligent in the design and operation of their platforms — a landmark verdict.

Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer of Meta Platforms Inc., exits Los Angeles Superior Court in Los Angeles, California, US, on Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2026. Zuckerberg testified that it’s “very difficult” to enforce Instagram’s age limits and downplayed how much teen users do for the company’s business during a landmark trial over social media addiction. Photographer: Kyle Grillot/Bloomberg
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Brockman Says Musk Vowed on Trial’s Eve to Make Him ‘Hated’

OpenAI President Greg Brockman says Elon Musk messaged him just before they faced off in a trial to talk about settling their fight — and then vowed to ruin his reputation.

Sam Altman, chief executive officer and co-founder of OpenAI Inc., right, and Greg Brockman, president and co-founder of OpenAI Inc., arrive at the federal court in Oakland, California, US, on Thursday, April 30, 2026. Elon Musk is suing OpenAI and Microsoft Corp. over claims that the startup abandoned its founding mission when it took billions of dollars in backing from the software stalwart and planned its restructuring. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg
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How a Social Media Trial Verdict Threatens Big Tech

A flood of lawsuits filed in recent years against social media giants claim that by engineering their platforms to be hard to resist, the companies are causing serious harm to young users. In the first case to go to trial, a jury on March 25 found Meta Platforms Inc. and Google negligent in the design and operation of their platforms – a landmark verdict.

Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer of Meta Platforms Inc., exits Los Angeles Superior Court in Los Angeles, California, US, on Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2026. Zuckerberg testified that it’s “very difficult” to enforce Instagram’s age limits and downplayed how much teen users do for the company’s business during a landmark trial over social media addiction. Photographer: Kyle Grillot/Bloomberg
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How a Social Media Addiction Trial Threatens Big Tech

Two of the world’s largest social media platforms are facing a jury trial over allegations that they intentionally designed their products to be addictive to young people — drawing comparisons to Big Tobacco’s reckoning with consumer addiction three decades ago.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg Photographer: Will Oliver/EPA/Bloomberg
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Social Media Giants Lose Last Bid to Avoid Trials With Schools

Meta Platforms Inc., Google, TikTok Inc. and Snap Inc. lost a chance to avoid going to trial over claims by public school districts across the US that social media platforms harmed the mental health of students and strained school resources.

Teenagers using mobile phones. Photographer: Daniel de la Hoz/Getty Images
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Fight Over Trump’s $100,000 H-1B Visa Fee Moves to Appeals Court

The US Chamber of Commerce is appealing a federal court’s refusal to block the Trump administration’s $100,000 fee on applications for H-1B visas that are heavily relied on by American technology companies for hiring skilled foreign workers.

President Donald Trump delivers remarks alongside a poster of the "Trump Gold Card" before signing an executive order at the White House in Washington on Sept. 19.
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Why Report Finds Hegseth’s Use of Signal Risked Putting US Troops in Danger

In a report filed to Congress on Dec. 3, the acting Pentagon inspector general concluded that sensitive messages Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth sent in a group Signal chat months prior risked putting US troops in danger, a person familiar with the matter said.

Donald Trump, JD Vance, Pete Hegseth, and Mike Waltz in the Oval Office of the White House. Photographer: Yuri Gripas/Abaca/Bloomberg
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What’s at Stake as Trump Expands the Use of Troops at Home

President Donald Trump continues to expand troop deployments to US cities, escalating a campaign to assert military power at home with little precedent in US history.

Members of the National Guard patrol near the US Capitol on the National Mall in Washington, DC, US, on Monday, Sept. 29, 2025. National Guard troops deployed to Washington, DC for President Donald Trump's "safe and beautiful mission" are set to keep working in the city, without pay, if the US government shuts down over a funding dispute between the White House and congressional Democrats. Photographer: Al Drago/Bloomberg
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