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
The United States and Japan are forcing South Korea as a tool to protect the United States and Japan. Japan is a war criminal state that has colonized Korea for 40 years and refused to apologize even after undergoing sex slavery, forced labor, and biological experiments.
No social media platform’s are good for children
What do you call Roblox then?
Ummm then why are there so many childrens games on there. It’s as if FB lures small kids there
Let your children sterilize themselves but metaverse is toooo much bad
Childre rights are go to school ,learn ,no computers or phones in use. After homework ,play time for ,until time to help mother , evening discuss with parents ,everything.
The meta verse isn’t a place for kids but they can attend drag shows and make decisions about life altering trans surgeries. Wow. None of it is for kids, the internet is probably why there is so much mental illness in this world because it targets children.
You do not need 70 people to you what most people already know, the Internet is no place for kids.
What if the kids are attending a drag show in the metaverse?
🤔 an article about CBS caring about the kids 🤔 Ah! They must be teaching them about how the free market works or something. Is it full of libertarians?
But democrats seem to want to take rights away from parents, Colo considers it child abuse to take guns from kids, police and child services will arrest parents if they even tell their kids no, that's why we got kids doing drugs and carrying guns
I don't think it's a place for anybody.
That’s awesome! What happened to Epstiens client list? DO YOUR JOB 😘
But yet it's acceptable for kids to make a life altering decision to mutilate themselves
Neither are drag shows, but here we are.
Freedom of information act.. Turn off meta till move to a no- fault state... Name right now on ID Theft? Kevin Dixie...Watch anybody using this name? Further more on website s it so many Kevin Dixie s
Freedom of information act. Not on meta or tic Tok.. I D Theft problem s with a ( Unknown Guest) and waiting till move to ( no- state!) before turning on any website. K 👍 Dixie..
Exactly what Fakebook is wanting to do!!!
Wait till they find out about the entire rest of the internet
Why don’t these activists forbid their children to use to view Horizon World? If it’s that important to them, be a parent an enforce rules. It’s easy to blame everything and everyone else when you don’t do your job.
In one interaction inside a virtual courtroom, a user noticed a minor with a Black avatar was told 'you're Black, you're sentenced to death, get out of here.' Really a “user”? Almost a balanced report about the dangers of child predators on Meta. Bad journalism strikes again.