Minors are likely to face harassment and privacy violations on Meta’s metaverse app, the activists argued.
Advocacy organizations and safety groups have urged Mark Zuckerberg’s social media giant Meta to halt plans allowing minors into metaverse.
The activists argued that Meta must first assess potential risks of allowing youth in the metaverse as minors are likely to face harassment and privacy violations on its virtual reality app. The statement referred to a March report from the Center for Countering Digital Hate that found that users under 18 have already been facing harassment from adults on the app. The study specifically witnessed 19 episodes of of abuse directed at minors by adults, including sexual harassment, during 100 visits to the most popular worlds within Horizon Universe.
“Should Meta throw open the doors of these worlds to minors rather than pause to protect them, you would, yet again, demonstrate your company to be untrustworthy when it comes to safeguarding young people’s best interests.”planning to open up Horizon Worlds to users aged 13 and 17 in February. The company first opened Horizon Worlds to users from 18 years old in 2021 but has since been struggling to keep users coming back to the platform.
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