Meta’s metaverse is rife with predatory and toxic behavior, and the
company just announced it’s going to let teens on there. This morally
bankrupt tech giant will do anything to make a profit.

This community came together and stopped Meta’s nightmareish Instagram for
Kids. Now we need to pressure Meta to shelve this teen Metaverse horror.

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John,

Sexual assault, racist slurs, gun violence - Eko researchers only spent an
hour in the metaverse before experiencing the darkside of Meta’s platform.
And now Meta wants to open up the metaverse to teens.

Meta’s greed-driven execs have tried this before. Remember Meta’s
nightmareish Instagram for kids? Meta shelved that plan after a massive
public backlash.

If we act fast, and we make a huge public outcry, we can force Meta to
drop its toxic metaverse for teens too.

[ [link removed] ]Sign and share: Zuckerberg to pull the plug on Metaverse for teens.

With crashing share prices and younger users leaving in their droves for
TikTok, Meta is desperate to turn its fortunes around. That’s why they’re
pushing this plan to get teens in their toxic metaverse - make a quick
profit, and to hell with the harm it might do to young teenagers.

Meta says that users in the Metaverse can turn on safety features that
protect them from the most toxic behaviour. Yet again, these clueless tech
bros push the responsibility on users to keep themselves safe from their
harmful and predatory apps.

Facebook, Instagram and TikTok are fuelling a massive mental health crisis
- our kids desperately need these tech platforms to stop exploiting them
for profit.

[ [link removed] ]Meta: drop your Metaverse for teens.

The SumOfUs community forced Zuckerberg to ditch kids for Instagram. Now
let’s make sure he doesn’t push his latest hellscape onto young teens.



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Thanks for all that you do,
Vicky and the team at Ekō


More information:

[ [link removed] ]Meta’s Horizon Worlds has been a dud. Now the company is hoping to open
up its metaverse to teenagers
Fortune, February 7, 2023

[ [link removed] ]Meta Pursues Teen Users as Horizon Metaverse App Struggles to Grow The
Wall Street Journal, February 7, 2023

 

 

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