Two Bay Area chat and gaming companies are being sued for allegedly facilitating child sexual exploitation and abuse. The suit claims San Mateo-based Roblox and San Francisco-based Discord allowed ...

Roblox and Discord are being sued by the mother of a 15-year-old boy who died by suicide after allegedly being targeted by “an adult sex predator” posing as a child on the platforms. A wrongful death ...

The mom of a teen boy who died by suicide after being abused while playing Roblox is suing the popular online game for wrongful death. Rebecca Dallas filed the lawsuit Friday in San Francisco, ...

Roblox is using M&A to bulk up its social infrastructure, announcing Monday morning that they had acquired the team at Guilded that has been building a chat platform for competitive gamers. The ...

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 ...

Google, OpenAI, Roblox, and Discord have formed a new non-profit organization to help improve child safety online. The Robust Open Online Safety Tools (ROOST) initiative aims to make core safety ...

Since its founding, the gaming platform Roblox had a considerable drawback: Friends who wanted to play the same game together couldn't do so easily. Typically, they'd have to use a third-party app, ...

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 ...