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Facebook owner Meta came under sharp scrutiny Tuesday as whistleblowers testified before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology and the Law, accusing the company of covering up internal research showing children were being groomed, harassed, and assaulted inside its virtual reality platforms.
Both whistleblowers described a pattern of suppression, in a culture where researchers were monitored by lawyers, reports were edited or destroyed, and safety studies were sidelined in favor of boosting user engagement. Cayce Savage, who specialized in youth safety, said she was explicitly told not to study what kinds of harm children were experiencing, while Jason Sattizahn, a former Meta researcher, recalled being ordered to erase evidence of children in Germany being solicited for sex acts on Meta’s VR platform.
Sattizahn, who spent six years inside the company, told lawmakers that “it is evident that Meta consistently chooses profit over safety for its users.” He described internal studies showing that nearly half of VR users reported harm in just three weeks of use ranging from harassment...
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