In context: Roblox is a gaming platform with a massive audience of teens and younger players. Authorities worldwide have criticized the service as a potential grooming ground for predators, but the ...

The Florida Attorney General's Office has sued gaming platform Roblox, claiming the site markets to children but does not ...

Roblox is introducing a new age-based chat system. Users will undergo age verification using facial scans or government IDs. This will place them into narrow age groups, restricting private chats ...

Lisa M. Given receives funding from the Australian Research Council. She is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and the Association for Information Science and Technology.

We all have that one friend who swears they’ll “sort their photos later.” Spoiler: they never do. Between endless screenshots ...

Meta plans deep cuts to its metaverse and Reality Labs division in 2026 — how did it go from the next big thing to nothing?

A mother and her 14-year-old son living in Oklahoma County have filed a lawsuit against 'Roblox,' alleging sexual ...

Roblox is to become the first major gaming platform where facial age verification will be mandatory to access any chat features. In 2024, the platform averaged over 80 million players a day, ...

Australia is set to become the first country in the world to ban people under the age of 16 from social media platforms. The ...

Jay Taylor, 13, killed himself on camera after allegedly being driven to do so by a sadistic online group with ties to ...

Merriam-Webster’s word of the year tends to say a lot about the past 12 months — and how ready we as a society are to give up ...