Two Bay Area chat and gaming companies are being sued for allegedly facilitating child sexual exploitation and abuse. The suit claims San Mateo-based Roblox and San Francisco-based Discord allowed ...

The mother of a 15-year-old boy who killed himself is suing Roblox and Discord for wrongful death, alleging the apps’ lack of guardrails allowed her son to be sexually coerced by an adult predator ...

Journalist Jo Ling Kent joined CBS News in July 2023 as the senior business and technology correspondent for CBS News. Kent has more than 15 years of experience covering the intersection of technology ...

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 suited ...

Roblox and Discord are being sued in California over claims that they enabled the sexual harassment and exploitation of a minor referred to as 'Jane Doe'. The lawsuit alleged that both platforms ...

Roblox users are getting a new way to connect with friends while playing games like Dress to Impress. Starting Monday, those who log onto the gaming platform will see a new way to chat called Party.

Since its founding, the gaming platform Roblox had a considerable drawback: Friends who wanted to play the same game together couldn't do so easily. Typically, they'd have to use a third-party app, ...

Roblox, a San Mateo-based online gaming company, is in hot water after a lawsuit alleges the firm fails to implement measures that prevent predatory behavior toward children and is negligent in ...

(KRON) — A 10-year-old California girl was kidnapped by a man who communicated with her through Roblox and Discord, two wildly popular online gaming platforms for children. The girl’s family reported ...

Roblox and Discord are being sued by the mother of a 15-year-old boy who died by suicide after allegedly being targeted by “an adult sex predator” posing as a child on the platforms. A wrongful death ...

The mom of a teen boy who died by suicide after being abused while playing Roblox is suing the popular online game for wrongful death. Rebecca Dallas filed the lawsuit Friday in San Francisco, ...

The ROOST initiative aims to provide other companies with free, open-source AI tools to help protect children online. The ROOST initiative aims to provide other companies with free, open-source AI ...