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Big Tech and the Online Child Sexual Exploitation Crisis (QFR Responses)
Questioner: Chuck Grassley
Harm: Child sexual exploitationInitiative: Virtual Reality
Q. · Question
Chuck Grassley
A. · Response
Respondent not recorded
QuestionCiting a Daily Mail report on a UK police investigation into the virtual gang rape of a girl under 16 in Meta's Horizon Worlds VR platform, Grassley asks what proactive steps Meta is taking to prevent sexual assault and unwanted sexual advances against children in VR.
ResponseMeta does not address the specific Horizon Worlds assault incident described; it lists existing VR safety defaults for teens (personal boundary distance, blurred chat, garbled voice mode, private profiles, block/mute/report tools, parental supervision controls) as its answer to preventing unwanted sexual contact.