Attorneys representing a 13-year-old boy in a lawsuit against Bay Area tech companies Roblox and Discord are alleging that the platforms’ lack of safeguards allows predators to sexually exploit and ...

Officials in Florida and New Jersey are scrutinizing popular video game apps Roblox and Discord over child safety concerns. Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier issued a subpoena to Roblox Corp.

Roblox Corporation (NYSE:RBLX) shares are falling after news broke of a new lawsuit seeking to hold the gaming platform and Discord accountable for allegedly enabling the sexual exploitation of a ...

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GALVESTON, Texas -- A federal lawsuit claims that two popular gaming platforms failed to protect a child in Galveston, Texas from an alleged predator. The victim's mother said she uses parental ...

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A US teenager is suing Roblox and Discord for "severe injuries she suffered because of [the companies'] respective conduct in creating, designing, marketing, and distributing their mobile- and ...

Roblox, Discord, OpenAI and Google are launching a nonprofit organization called ROOST, or Robust Open Online Safety Tools, which hopes "to build scalable, interoperable safety infrastructure suited ...

Roblox and Discord are the latest targets in a wave of lawsuits over social media addiction, in a case alleging an 11-year-old girl was exploited by a sexual predator while playing online video games.

The ROOST initiative aims to provide other companies with free, open-source AI tools to help protect children online. The ROOST initiative aims to provide other companies with free, open-source AI ...