The settlement means Snap will avoid a trial where plaintiffs had planned to argue that social media platforms are inherently defective and subject to personal injury liability.

Snapchat on Wednesday confirmed it made a deal to avoid a US civil trial accusing it, along with Meta, TikTok, and YouTube, of addicting young people to social media.Social media firms are accused in suits of addicting young users to content that has led to depression,

The British government is considering banning young teenagers from social media to protect them from harmful content and excessive screen time.

More than 60 Labour MPs have called on the prime minister to impose a ban on under-16s access to social media platforms. In a open letter to Sir Keir Starmer on Sunday, the 61 MPs said "successive governments" had done "too little to protect young people from... unregulated, addictive social media platforms".

With billions of active users across TikTok, Instagram, YouTube and other social media platforms, cutting down on screen time is a common goal for many people

When leaders participate intentionally and employees feel empowered to share authentically, social stops feeling like an obligation.

A "more nuanced approach" is needed when supervising children's social media use, a head teacher has suggested amid calls for the government to introduce a blanket ban for under-16s.

The priest said the contribution that Catholics are called to make in the digital world is to humanize it, 'not with speeches, but with their presence.'