{"id":20033,"date":"2025-09-09T16:37:51","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T14:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/09\/meta-hid-harms-to-children-from-vr-products-whistleblowers-allege\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T16:37:51","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T14:37:51","slug":"meta-hid-harms-to-children-from-vr-products-whistleblowers-allege","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/09\/meta-hid-harms-to-children-from-vr-products-whistleblowers-allege\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta hid harms to children from VR products, whistleblowers allege"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Company accused of manipulating virtual reality research as senator attacks Meta\u2019s \u2018disgusting web of lies\u2019<\/p>\n<p>A group of six whistleblowers have come forward with allegations of a cover-up of harm to children on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/meta\">Meta<\/a>\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/virtual-reality\">virtual reality<\/a> devices and apps. They say the social media company, which owns Facebook and Instagram, and offers a line of VR headsets and games, deleted or doctored internal safety research that showed children being exposed to grooming, sexual harassment and violence in its 3D realms.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMeta knew that underage children were using its products, but figured, \u2018Hey, kids drive engagement,\u2019 and it was making them cash,\u201d Jason Sattizahn, one of the whistleblowers who worked on the company\u2019s VR research, said in a statement. \u201cMeta has compromised their internal teams to manipulate research and straight-up erase data that they don\u2019t like.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/sep\/08\/meta-virtual-reality-whistleblowers\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/62b6f5efd1f5bb395e0235dcff710ca33b5f97df\/560_0_5600_4480\/master\/5600.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=4889e4a4d70e278d7ef0f29f7f7cc1f8\" title=\"Meta hid harms to children from VR products, whistleblowers allege\" \/>Company accused of manipulating virtual reality research as senator attacks Meta\u2019s \u2018disgusting web of lies\u2019<br \/>\nA group of six whistleblowers have come forward with allegations of a cover-up of harm to children on Meta\u2019s virtual reality devices and apps. They say the social media company, which owns Facebook and Instagram, and offers a line of VR headsets and games, deleted or doctored internal safety research that showed children being exposed to grooming, sexual harassment and violence in its 3D realms.<br \/>\n\u201cMeta knew that underage children were using its products, but figured, \u2018Hey, kids drive engagement,\u2019 and it was making them cash,\u201d Jason Sattizahn, one of the whistleblowers who worked on the company\u2019s VR research, said in a statement. \u201cMeta has compromised their internal teams to manipulate research and straight-up erase data that they don\u2019t like.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Company accused of manipulating virtual reality research as senator attacks Meta\u2019s \u2018disgusting web of lies\u2019 A group of six whistleblowers have come forward with allegations of a cover-up of harm to children on Meta\u2019s virtual reality devices and apps. They say the social media company, which owns Facebook and Instagram, and offers a line of &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/09\/meta-hid-harms-to-children-from-vr-products-whistleblowers-allege\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Meta hid harms to children from VR products, whistleblowers allege<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":20034,"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\/20033"}],"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=20033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}