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Roblox announces policy changes for pre-teen users amid ongoing accusations of child-safety failures

Roblox Corporation has announced changes to its child-safety policies that'll impact the way pre-teen users can interac…

The move follows persitent accusations the company routinely fails to protect its predominantly young player base, and, more recently, a damning report calling Roblox an "X-rated paedophile hellscape" that exposes children to "grooming, pornography, violent content and extremely abusive speech". In both cases, Roblox hit back at the accusations, calling the Hindenberg Research report "simply misleading" and insisting the Bloomberg article contained "glaring mischaracterisations". And Roblox CEO Stefano Corazza raised eyebrows earlier this year after telling Eurogamer the company had "hired some teenagers that had millions of players", following up with the suggestion children making money on the platform isn't exploitation, it's a "gift".

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