TikTok has agreed to settle in a landmark social media addiction lawsuit just before the trial kicked off, the plaintiff’s attorneys confirmed.

If the bill passes the upper house it could take effect by the start of France's new school year in September.

TikTok has agreed to settle with a plaintiff and will no longer be part of a high-profile social media trial kicking off on Tuesday.

French lawmakers have approved a bill banning social media for children under 15. The measure, which also bans mobile phones in high schools, passed with a 130-21 vote on Monday.

Children in France under the age of 15 could be barred from accessing social media from September 1 after legislators voted in favor of a ban.

Posts on social-media platform X that are critical of scientific research can act as early warning signs of problematic articles, according to two large studies. The findings reflect how post-publication commentary can help to identify errors or fraudulent results, say scientists.

Ahead of a proposed rule change that would require social media account information from some foreign travelers to the United States, international travel experts are saying the policy could further deter visitors from coming to the US — a decline that could translate into billions of dollars in lost revenue for the travel sector.

I was the one at the dinner party talking about how I’d logged off. I was the one writing essays on how being offline had deeply healed me. (The irony, of course, being that I was doing this on Substack of all places, to my 23,000 subscribers.) And in many ways, it had. Up to a point.