Former Meta researchers Witnessing company Buried Safety Studies for Child Safety

Meta oppressed internal research systematic research into serious child safety risks on its virtual reality platforms, according to allegations of current and former employees who testified to the US congress on Tuesday.

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In their allegations, first unveiled in The Washington Post, it claims whistleblowers that the legal team of Meta has tried to set “plausible denial” about negative effects of the company’s VR products on young users.

Although a large loser of money for the company that has Facebook and Instagram, Meta is a leading force in the VR industry, mainly through its quest -line -up of devices, including the successful Quest 3.

“Meta is aware that his VR platform is full of minor children. Meta is deliberately closing a blind for this knowledge, even though it is clear to anyone who uses their products,” said former Meta researcher Cayce Savage during the hearing of the US Senate.

According to the post, internal documents show that after former Meta product manager Frances Haugen leaked harmful information about the policy of the company in the field of content, the company imposed new rules on any research into “sensitive” topics, including children, gender, race and intimidation.

This included advice to researchers to “be aware” about how they framed studies, avoid terms such as “illegally” or say something “violate” specific laws.

But the documents reveal that employees repeatedly warned that children under the age of 13 bypass the age restrictions to use the VR services of Meta, despite the conditions of the service restriction of access to users aged 13 and older.

Already in 2017 an employee estimated that in some virtual rooms no less than 80 to 90 percent of users were minors, warning: “This is the kind of things that ultimately make the headlines – in a really bad way.”

With the post, Meta violently denied the allegations, in which spokeswoman Dani delivered them a “predetermined and false story” on the basis of examples picked by cherry.

“We are in the excellent work of our research team and are relieved by these wrong characteristics of the team’s efforts,” said Lever and noted that the company has developed various safety protection for young users.

Researcher Jason Sattizahn told the hearing of the Senate that it was “very clear that Meta is unable to change without being forced by the congress.”

“Whether it’s commitment or profit, they honestly have had undeserved opportunities to correct their behavior, and they didn’t do that,” Sattizahn told senators.