Roblox, which has 85 million people play games on its site daily, ... Officials in Florida and New Jersey are scrutinizing popular video game apps Roblox and Discord over child safety concerns.

Discord, Facebook, Snapchat, and Roblox are the targets of a child safety lawsuit alleging they include addictive or harmful features that allowed an adult user to connect with and abuse a child.

Roblox and Discord are the latest targets in a wave of lawsuits over social media addiction, in a case alleging an 11-year-old girl was exploited by a sexual predator while playing online video games.

Google, OpenAI, Roblox, and Discord have formed ROOST, a new non-profit organization to help improve child safety online. ROOST says AI has increased the need to improve online safety for children.

"Both Roblox and Discord, we allege, were negligent in the services they provided to our client, a 13-year-old boy," said Anna Marie Murphy, an attorney with Cotchett, Pitre and McCarthy.

The lawsuit alleges that both Roblox and Discord work in tandem to enable sexual exploitation of children. It claims that predators tend to pose as children on these apps, befriend young users ...

Roblox published 40 safety updates in 2024, the company said earlier this month as it touted new tools to help parents control how their children interact with strangers.

Roblox and Discord sued for allegedly facilitating child sexual exploitation The suit claims the companies allowed online predators to find victims. By Scott Budman • Published February 20, 2025 ...

Roblox, Discord, OpenAI and Google are launching a nonprofit organization called ROOST, or Robust Open Online Safety Tools, which hopes "to build scalable, interoperable safety infrastructure ...