ORIGINAL STORY 4.30pm UK: Roblox's record on child safety has come under fire yet again, this time in a damning new Bloomberg report that details the scale of the issue faced by the game's ...

Roblox receives hundreds of child safety reports daily, according to a moderator. The Roblox Corporation is reported to have passed on 13,316 cases of child exploitation to US authorities in 2023.

Every second, according to Roblox, it processes more than 50,000 chat messages—Hey loser, cute outfit, let’s be friends—through its moderation protocols, a combination of artificial ...

Roblox responded to that report by calling it "simply misleading", but last month announced plans to require parental permission for children under the age of 13 to access chat features by default.

Roblox is introducing new safety features for children under the age of 13, following criticism of how it protects younger users. The free online gaming platform, which has around 70 million daily ...

Roblox has banned social hangouts and free-form creation for users under 13, with unrated experiences becoming inaccessible to them.