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Big Tech and the Online Child Sexual Exploitation Crisis (QFR Responses)

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Questioner: Josh Hawley

Harm: Child sexual exploitationInitiative: Virtual Reality
Q. · Question

Josh Hawley

A. · Response

Respondent not recorded

QuestionWhat does Meta see as the biggest risks to children in the Metaverse/VR?

ResponseRather than naming risks, Meta lists Horizon Worlds' mitigations: blocking teens from seeing/being contacted by unknown adults, private-by-default profiles, hidden active status, content ratings, voice garbling/muffling for strangers, blurred world chat, and a chat-language filter — plus parental-supervision locks on several of these defaults.