I Pose as A 13-Year-Old in a Metaverse Chat Room Here’s What Happened.
Is your child venturing into the Metaverse and could they be getting into dangerous situations?
Talking Point host Munah Bagharib goes undercover as a 13-year-old in the popular chat room, VR Chat. Though there is an age limit of 18, it isn’t enforced in this chat room, so she encountered avatars of other users claiming to be aged 10 and 14. She definitely didn’t expect to witness explicit sexual acts between avatars. She was even followed by a stranger she had just met.
A cybersecurity expert warns about how the metaverse could be a hunting ground for pedophiles, and about the possible lasting damage to children who, say, might have their avatars groped online the experience can feel as real as if it had happened in real life.
Woman gang-raped in Facebook’s metaverse.
A 43-year-old from London was gang-raped on Facebook’s metaverse platform 60 minutes after logging on. Is it time for governments to step in and regulate virtual interactions?
Will the metaverse become a dark underbelly of the real world?