Many children's rights activists are asking Meta to abandon its plans to attract young teens onto its Horizon Worlds metaverse platform because, they say, doing so will likely expose minors to sexually explicit and homophobic content.
Meta vowed Friday to make sure minors aren't exposed to explicit material while on Horizon Worlds.
"Before we make Horizon Worlds available to teens, we will have additional protections and tools in place to help provide age-appropriate experiences for them," a company spokesperson told CBS News."Quest headsets are for people 13+ and we encourage parents and caretakers to use our parental supervision tools, including managing access to apps, to help ensure safe experiences."
Some users as young as 15 are already on Horizon Worlds and they have been exposed to racist insults and misogynistic language, advocates wrote, while pointing to a CCDHpublished last month. Researchers from the study recorded interactions from 100 of Horizon Worlds' most populated spaces and found that minors occupy 66 of those VR worlds.
Horizon Worlds is Meta's free social app where users don an Oculus headset, dive into a virtual reality environment, explore different spaces and interact with other users in real time. Meta launched it in December 2021, sparking a race with other tech companies to assert dominance in the metaverse market.
Meta, which also owns Instagram, has been called out in the past for how teenagers use its platforms. Company documents show that Meta is aware of negative effects Instagram has on the self-image of many young users, particularly for teenage girls, but still gives them access, the Journal
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