‘PLAYGROUND FOR PREDATORS’: Texas third state to sue gaming titan, Roblox, for child endangerment

At the beginning of November Texas Attorney General, Ken Paxton, filed a lawsuit against the popular gaming platform, Roblox.
TechCrunch

Roblox will require all users to perform age checks to access chat starting in January

Following a spate of lawsuits and investigations over its child safety systems, Roblox is going to implement mandatory facial verification for all users who want to access communication features, ...
The Hill

Roblox steps up age checks, will group younger users into age-based chats

Roblox is stepping up its age verification system for users who want to privately message other players and implementing age-based chats so kids, teens and adults will only be able to message people ...
The Indianapolis Star

What is Roblox? What parents need to know about child, teen safety on the platform

Roblox is among the most downloaded online games in the world, reporting millions of daily users from across the globe of all ages, mostly children and teenagers. Many have criticized the rise of ...
The New York Times

We Asked Roblox’s C.E.O. About Child Safety. It Got Tense.

This week the company announced that it would require users to undergo an A.I.-powered age estimation process in order to chat with others on the platform. Will this change reassure parents? By Kevin ...
Bozeman Daily Chronicle

Roblox steps up age checks and groups younger users into age-based chats

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Roblox is stepping up its age verification system for users who want to privately message other ...
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Australia's social media ban won't stop cyberbullying

Unfortunately, the social media ban will not stop cyberbullying. In fact, it may not reduce cyberbullying significantly at ...
Snopes.com

Real Vance post about Epstein from 2021 spreads online after email release

On Sept. 4, 2021, future U.S. Vice President JD Vance posted a tweet questioning why more people were not discussing the case of the deceased convicted sex offender and disgraced financier Jeffrey ...
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Roblox Bid for Ad Riches Collides With Wary Sponsors, Developers

(Bloomberg) -- Roblox Corp. executives have been trying to get advertisers to market their wares in the gaming platform’s virtual worlds since the company went public in 2021. It’s a chance for brands ...
EHS Today

Deadly Battery Recycling, Social Media Ban and Women Leaning Out: What I’m Reading This Week

Will Fitzgibbon, in a reporting collaboration with The Examination and The New York Times, recounted years of attempts to ...
The Echo

GPs say social media ban no silver bullet

The Royal Australian College of GPs (RACGP) has supported the Social Media Minimum Age obligation requiring social media ...

How To Watch the Stray Kids SKZOO Concert in Roblox

Mega K pop band Stray Kids is headed to Roblox. Its SKZOO animal avatars will be performing songs from its new hit album, Do ...