Reporters say MeHide harms to children in VR products | MeHide

A group of six whistleblowers filed charges that covered up harm to children’s virtual reality devices and applications. They say that a social media company that owns Facebook, Instagram, and offers a range of VR headsets and games that delete or tamper with internal security studies showing children being exposed to beauty, sexual harassment and violence in their 3D realm.

“Meta knows that underage kids are using their products, but thinks, ‘Hey, kids are engaged by car’, which makes them cash,” Jason Sattizahn, one of the whistleblowers who are working on the company’s VR research, said in a statement. “The Meta has compromised their internal team to manipulate research they don’t like and delete data directly.”

It is said that Washington Postthe allegations were first reported. Meta’s chief VR youth user experience researchers Sattizahn and Cayce Savage will appear before the U.S. Senate Judicial Subcommittee on Tuesday.

Metal spokesman Dani Lever said that since 2022, the company has approved 180 studies related to its VR reality lab, including research on youth safety and well-being.

“These examples are stitched together to accommodate pre-ordered and wrong narratives,” she said. He added that Meta has introduced features to its VR products to limit unwanted contact and supervision tools for parents.

The whistleblower’s allegation publicly claimed on Monday that the company could do more to ensure children’s safety on Meta’s VR products. The whistleblower said the company manager directed employees to avoid the research that could show evidence of child harm in virtual reality.

In one example, a researcher was reportedly told to “swallow that.”

In another case, a researcher was told to remove information from an interview they had with their German family, the Washington Post reported. In that interview, a teenage boy told researchers that his brother under 10 “frequently met strangers” in Meta’s VR and that “adults have gendered mentions to his younger brother.”

These allegations arose as a steady march of former Yuan employees Stand up and criticize the company Make enough efforts to protect children from their social media products. Councillors have also repeatedly baked dollar executives to push content to youth who promote bullying, drug abuse and self-harm.

Republican Senator Josh Hawley prompted Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg to enter at a congressional hearing in January 2024 Public apology.

“I’m sorry for what you’ve been through,” Zuckerberg said at the time. “No one should go through the things that your family suffers, and that’s why we invest so much and we will continue to work throughout the industry to make sure no one has to go through the things that your family has to suffer.”

Republican Senator Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee said the revelation about metaVR products suggests Congress needs to pass legislation to place guardrails on social media companies.

“Meta did not draw serious concerns about the widespread harm on the platform, but silenced the employees who dared to stand up, buried huge evidence and shamelessly used innocent children as pawns to arrange their pockets,” Blackburn said. “These whistleblowers should have the courage to expose Meta’s disgusting network of lies.”

Six whistleblowers are represented by legal non-profit whistleblowers. They plan to testify to the subcommittee on Tuesday.

Current and former META employees also made detailed disclosures to Congress, the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Federal Trade Commission.