Meta allegedly suppressed research that suggested kids were exposed to certain dangers when using its VR headsets, data-i13n=”cpos:1;pos:1″ href=”https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2025/09/08/meta-research-child-safety-virtual-reality/” rel=”nofollow noopener” target=”_blank” data-ylk=”slk:according to a report by The Washington Post;cpos:1;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas” class=”link “>. Current and former employees have presented documents to Congress that describe incidents in which children were groomed by adult predators in VR, but allege that internal reports were edited to omit the worst of these offenses. Meta has denied these allegations.

Two of these researchers claim they met with a German family in which a child younger than ten had been approached by strangers…

Meta allegedly suppressed research that suggested kids were exposed to certain dangers when using its VR headsets, data-i13n=”cpos:1;pos:1″ href=”https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2025/09/08/meta-research-child-safety-virtual-reality/” rel=”nofollow noopener” target=”_blank” data-ylk=”slk:according to a report by The Washington Post;cpos:1;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas” class=”link “>. Current and former employees have presented documents to Congress that describe incidents in which children were groomed by adult predators in VR, but allege that internal reports were edited to omit the worst of these offenses. Meta has denied these allegations.

Two of these researchers claim they met with a German family in which a child younger than ten had been approached by strangers…