The world's largest social media companies have been accused of creating "addiction machines" as a landmark trial began in ...

Ian Anderson is a postdoctoral researcher at the California Institute of Technology. Wendy Wood is professor emerita of psychology and business at the University of Southern California.

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. YouTube and Meta are defendants in a blockbuster trial in Los Angeles that could set a legal precedent on whether social media ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Short Video Addiction (SVA) is a term used by researchers, and this is separate from excessive general internet use. A 2025 report ...

LOS ANGELES — A landmark social media addiction trial resumed Monday with a YouTube executive insisting that the Google-owned company's aim was to give people value, not hook them on harmful ...

FILE - Young people use their phones to view social media in Sydney, Nov. 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft, File) FILE - Young people use their phones to view social media in Sydney, Nov. 8, 2024. (AP ...

YouTube's legal team insisted Tuesday that the Google-owned video platform was not intentionally addictive or even technically social media, on the second day of a landmark U.S. trial targeting tech ...