{"id":18491,"date":"2025-04-14T11:37:22","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T09:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/14\/risks-to-children-playing-roblox-deeply-disturbing-say-researchers\/"},"modified":"2025-04-14T11:37:22","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T09:37:22","slug":"risks-to-children-playing-roblox-deeply-disturbing-say-researchers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/14\/risks-to-children-playing-roblox-deeply-disturbing-say-researchers\/","title":{"rendered":"Risks to children playing Roblox \u2018deeply disturbing\u2019, say researchers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Gaming platform accused of \u2018troubling disconnect between child-friendly appearance and reality\u2019<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/apr\/14\/parents-describe-children-roblox-problems\">\u2018A man approached him\u2019: parents describe their children\u2019s Roblox problems<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cDeeply disturbing\u201d research exposes how easy it is for children to encounter inappropriate content and interact unsupervised with adults on the gaming platform Roblox.<\/p>\n<p>It comes as parents <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/apr\/11\/parents-describe-children-roblox-problems\">shared their serious concerns<\/a> about children experiencing addiction, seeing traumatising content and being approached by strangers on the hugely popular website and app.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/apr\/14\/risks-children-roblox-deeply-disturbing-researchers\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/f51899b8d761d1fe85a653ee140391e3d3edd8c1\/0_302_5760_3456\/master\/5760.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=3b53e52371d5f14adc0ee997c3ff21d5\" title=\"Risks to children playing Roblox \u2018deeply disturbing\u2019, say researchers\" \/>Exclusive: Gaming platform accused of \u2018troubling disconnect between child-friendly appearance and reality\u2019<br \/>\n\u2018A man approached him\u2019: parents describe their children\u2019s Roblox problems<br \/>\n\u201cDeeply disturbing\u201d research exposes how easy it is for children to encounter inappropriate content and interact unsupervised with adults on the gaming platform Roblox.<br \/>\nIt comes as parents shared their serious concerns about children experiencing addiction, seeing traumatising content and being approached by strangers on the hugely popular website and app. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Gaming platform accused of \u2018troubling disconnect between child-friendly appearance and reality\u2019 \u2018A man approached him\u2019: parents describe their children\u2019s Roblox problems \u201cDeeply disturbing\u201d research exposes how easy it is for children to encounter inappropriate content and interact unsupervised with adults on the gaming platform Roblox. It comes as parents shared their serious concerns about &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/14\/risks-to-children-playing-roblox-deeply-disturbing-say-researchers\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Risks to children playing Roblox \u2018deeply disturbing\u2019, say researchers<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":18492,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18491"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}