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• Fortnite Settlement Provides $126M Payouts to Players Targeted With Unwanted Items: FTC

  July 1, 2025

  Michael Adams

  As part of a settlement with Epic Games over deceptive in-game purchases, the FTC has sent $126 million in additional Fortnite refunds to players charged for unwanted items.

• Video Game Addiction Can Begin as Early as Elementary School: Study

  June 27, 2025

  Michael Adams

  New research suggests that children as young as 10 years old may be showing clinical or early signs of internet gaming disorder.

• Social Media Addiction Lawsuit

  June 24, 2025

  Austin Kirk

• Judge Selects 11 Social Media Addiction Lawsuits for MDL Bellwether Jury Trials

  June 24, 2025

  Russell Maas

  A federal judge has selected five individual social media addiction lawsuits, as well as six others filed by various school districts across the country, to serve as potential bellwether jury trials.

• Social Media Use Leading to Declines in Kids’ Mental Health: Report

  June 16, 2025

  Michael Adams

  An international children’s rights group warns that excessive internet and social media use is fueling a global mental health crisis that is directly linked to rising suicide attempts among youth around the globe.

• Character.AI Lawsuit Filed Over Teen Suicide After Alleged Sexual Exploitation by Chatbot

  June 4, 2025

  Michael Adams

  A wrongful death lawsuit has been filed against Character.AI, its co-founders, and Google, alleging a Florida teen died by suicide after developing a sexualized relationship with an AI chatbot that manipulated his mental state.

• Roblox and Discord Face Lawsuit Alleging Online Platforms Led to a Child’s Sexual Exploitation

  May 5, 2025

  Michael Adams

  A Florida woman alleges that, while she was still a minor, an adult used the online platforms Roblox and Discord to groom her and coerce her into sharing explicit images of herself.

• Roblox Lawsuit Alleges Video Game Platform Secretly Tracks Kids’ Online Data

  April 25, 2025

  Michael Adams

  A class action lawsuit filed by a California family alleges that the online gaming platform Roblox has built a sophisticated tracking system that monitors users across the internet, including children under the age of 13.

• Social Media Law Limiting Children’s Use of Platforms Struck Down by Federal Judge

  April 23, 2025

  Michael Adams

  As social media addiction lawsuits proliferate across the U.S., an Ohio law requiring teens to get parental consent before using social media apps has been struck down by a federal court as unconstitutional.

• TikTok Lawsuits Over Child Data Collection Consolidated in California

  April 16, 2025

  Irvin Jackson

  All TikTok lawsuits claiming that the social media platform misappropriated and misused personal data of minors have been consolidated before one judge for pretrial proceedings.