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.

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In a report by Bloomberg, the Social Media Victims Law Centre, a Seattle-based law firm, outlined how the girl had met adult men via Roblox and Discord’s direct message functions. The case was filed ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

The popular online gaming platform Roblox, which hosts millions of user-created games, is being sued by families and state attorneys general who claim online predators can groom, extort and exploit ...

The mother of a 15-year-old California boy who took his own life is now suing Roblox and Discord over his death, alleging her son was groomed and coerced to send explicit images on the apps. Rebecca ...

(CN) — In April, police found a missing 10-year-old girl and her pet bird with 27-year-old Matthew Naval, in a strip mall more than 250 miles from her home in Kern County, after the two reportedly met ...

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 ...