Meta is facing new whistleblower allegations that it buried internal research on child safety problems with its virtual reality platforms, according to an extensive report by The Washington Post on Monday.
In one example cited by the Post, Meta researchers in Germany interviewed a mother who said she never let her sons interact with strangers on Meta’s VR headsets. But her teenage son contradicted her, saying adults repeatedly propositioned his younger brother, who was under 10.
Researcher Jason Sattizahn told the Post he watched the mother realize “in real time” how unsafe the technology really was. He and another researcher say their boss ordered all records of the boy’s comments deleted.
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