Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta stifled internal research into the safety risks of its virtual reality apps – including a stomach-churning claim that sickos had “sexually propositioned” a kid younger than 10, according to bombshell whistleblower allegations that surfaced Monday.
Two of the whistleblowers, including a former Meta safety researcher named Jason Sattizahn and an unnamed colleague, detailed a shocking April 2023 research trip they had taken to Germany.
During the trip, a German mother said she didn’t allow her children to talk to strangers using Meta’s VR headsets – only to hear her teenage son allege moments later that his little brother had been propositioned by creeps on multiple occasions.
“I felt this deep sadness watching the mother’s response,” Sattizahn, told the Washington Post. “Her face in real time displayed her realization that what she thought she knew of Meta’s technology was completely wrong.”
After conducting the interviews, the researchers said they were told to delete their recordings and written evidence of the teenager’s allegations. Instead, Meta’s final report claimed German parents were merely concerned about the possibility of groomers targeting kids in VR.
The scandalous allegations and others were brought by four current and former Meta employees who gave a trove containing thousands of pages of documents, memos and presentations to Congress, the Washington Post reported.
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