Online gaming platform Roblox has become the subject of an ongoing investigation amid privacy and safety concerns.

A detective knocked on a Philadelphia mother’s door in April 2024 to deliver horrific news. For months, her 12-year-old daughter was preyed on by a man she met on the popular video game platform, ...

WhatsApp, Roblox, Reddit and Discord are among an expanded list of platforms which may be covered by the teen social media ...

Parental controls were already in place for a young US gamer, who was allegedly coerced into sending explicit images by an adult Roblox user posing as a child. He allegedly groomed the 15-year-old boy ...

A mother filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Roblox after her 15-year-old was sexually exploited and later killed himself.

Ethan Dallas was targeted by an adult sexual predator on Roblox when he was 12, and later on Discord, according to a lawsuit.

Roblox features millions of such games, many of them generated by the very children who play them. Grow a Garden — ...

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