Whistleblowers say Meta buried kids’ safety research

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00:00Whistleblowers say, Meta buried kids' safety research.

00:04Meta is back in hot water and this time it's not about your uncle's weird political rants

00:08on Facebook.

00:10According to the Washington Post, two current and two former employees have handed Congress

00:14a stack of internal documents alleging that Meta may have actively suppressed research

00:19into children's safety on its platforms.

00:22Yep, the same Meta that's been grilled for years over Instagram's effect on teen mental

00:26health faces new accusations.

00:28Whistleblowers call out suspicious timing.

00:31Just six weeks post-Francis Haugen's 2021 leak on Instagram, harming teenage girls, Meta

00:37allegedly shifted its rules on researching sensitive topics like kids, politics, race,

00:42and harassment.

00:43One former VR researcher, Jason Sadasan, claims he was told to delete recordings of a teen

00:49describing how his 10-year-old brother was propositioned in Horizon Worlds, Meta's virtual

00:54reality playground.

00:55Whistleblowers argue this wasn't about compliance but a pattern of discouraging staff from raising

01:01concerns about minors in VR.

01:03Meta, of course, denies everything.

01:06These few examples are being stitched together to fit a false narrative, the company told

01:10TechCrunch, pointing out that it has approved nearly 180 studies since 2022 on youth safety

01:17and well-being.

01:18Still, the allegations resonate with a lawsuit by Kelly Stone Lake, claiming Horizon Worlds

01:24targeted teens without safeguards.

01:26Her lawsuit states it took just 34 seconds for black avatars to face racist slurs.

01:32VR issues aside, Meta's controversies grow, including AI chatbots engaging minors inappropriately.

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