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A member of the media reports at the White House in Washington on Thursday.
WORLD
Sep 25, 2026
White House says banned media outlets allowed to return
CNN, MS NOW and Politico said their journalists were readmitted after a federal court ordered a suspension of U.S. President Donald Trump’s ban.
Olivia Konar, joined by other demonstrators, holds a banner with the names of young people who allegedly died due to the impacts of social media, during a protest outside the Ronald V. Dellums Federal Building & US Courthouse in Oakland, California, on Aug. 18.
BUSINESS / Tech
Aug 27, 2026
Meta says it’ll pay up to $18 billion in social media claims
Key parts of the deal require Meta Platforms to put new guardrails on its platforms, including restricting how much time youths can scroll.
Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, looks on during the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee hearing "Big Tech and the Online Child Sexual Exploitation Crisis" in Washington on Jan. 31, 2024.
BUSINESS / Tech
Aug 18, 2026
Meta stares down trillion-dollar threat as landmark social media trial begins
The attorneys general of 29 states are seeking not only massive financial penalties, but also court orders that could force Meta to change how it operates its platforms.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman at an event in Tokyo on Feb. 3, 2025. The state of Florida in the U.S. alleges in its lawsuit that OpenAI has been "careless” in its introduction of its artificial intelligence chatbot to the public.
WORLD
Jun 2, 2026
Florida sues OpenAI and Sam Altman over chatbot safety concerns
Florida’s sweeping lawsuit cites a range of alleged harms caused by ChatGPT while stating the chatbot is particularly addictive, impacting both younger people and adults.
Elon Musk arrives at the Ronald V. Dellums Federal Building for court in Oakland, California on April 30.
BUSINESS / Tech
May 19, 2026
Elon Musk loses case against Sam Altman over OpenAI’s overhaul
The Tesla CEO had claimed that Altman’s leadership betrayed OpenAI’s mission to benefit the public by morphing into a for-profit business.
Lori Schott is embraced by lawyer Laura Marquez-Garrett outside the court after the jury found Meta and Google liable in a key test case accusing Meta and Google's YouTube of harming children's mental health through addictive social media platforms, in Los Angeles on Wednesday.
BUSINESS / Tech
Mar 26, 2026
Meta and Google found liable in first social media addiction trial
The landmark decision could signal hefty risks for the companies as they fight thousands of similar claims.
The Los Angeles Superior Court building. A landmark trial being heard there over social media addiction is a critical test for thousands of similar cases, with potentially billions of dollars at stake, and it could ultimately force media companies to change how they interact with youths, one of their key audiences.
BUSINESS / Tech
Mar 10, 2026
Meta and Google pivot in addiction trial to accuser’s history
Lawyers for Meta have indicated they plan to demonstrate that her psychological trauma came from turmoil in her family and school life rather than social media.
Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s chief executive, arrives to testify in a tech addiction trial in Los Angeles on Wednesday.
BUSINESS / Tech
Feb 19, 2026
Zuckerberg says ‘difficult’ to enforce Instagram age limits
The CEO of Meta Platforms was sharply questioned on the witness stand Wednesday about the company’s efforts to attract and engage teenage users.
Social media networking apps
BUSINESS / Tech
Feb 11, 2026
YouTube lawyer sees no addiction from half hour of videos a day in trial
A 20-year-old Californian was presented by her lawyers as the face of a scourge that has allegedly poisoned millions of American youths — overconsumption of social media.
TikTok is moving to settle a lawsuit with a woman who claimed that the social media giant and others designed their platforms to addict young users.
BUSINESS
Jan 28, 2026
TikTok joins Snap settling youth addiction suit before trial
TikTok is moving to settle a lawsuit with a woman who alleged that the company and other social media giants designed their platforms to addict young users.
OpenAI has announced changes to make ChatGPT better at recognizing and responding to different ways that people may express mental distress.
BUSINESS / Tech
Dec 12, 2025
OpenAI and Microsoft sued over murder-suicide blamed on ChatGPT
The case is the first to blame OpenAI for a homicide.
Elon Musk (left) in Los Angeles in 2024 and Open AI CEO Sam Altman in Seoul in February. Elon Musk's companies xAI and X filed a sweeping U.S. antitrust lawsuit on Monday against Apple and OpenAI, alleging the tech giants formed an illegal partnership to stifle competition in artificial intelligence and smartphone markets.
BUSINESS / Tech
Aug 26, 2025
Musk sues Apple and OpenAI, saying they hurt AI competition
Musk is alleging the tech giants formed an illegal partnership to inhibit rivalry and innovation in artificial intelligence and smartphone markets.
Members of the California National Guard are deployed outside a complex of federal buildings in Santa Ana, California, on June 18.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jun 20, 2025
Trump allowed to keep using national guard in LA for now
Thursday’s decision isn’t the final ruling on the matter and is likely to be immediately challenged.
Demonstrators on Tuesday in Washington, where the U.S. Supreme Court signaled it's likely to preserve full access to a widely used abortion pill as the justices heard arguments in a case carrying major stakes for reproductive rights and potentially this year's elections.
WORLD / Society
Mar 27, 2024
Judges’ mention of 1873 obscenity law opens new front in U.S. war on abortion
Those opposed to the womens’ health procedure cite the law as a reason to roll back a 2021 FDA decision allowing an abortion drug to be sent by mail.

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