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 ...

Popular California-based web platforms Roblox and Discord are facing renewed scrutiny from tech experts and parents following a series of high-profile child exploitation cases, including unlawful ...

Internal accounts show Roblox chose investor metrics over child safety; cases part of action representing over 3,000 victims.

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 ...

A DeKalb County family filed a federal lawsuit against Roblox and Discord, claiming their now 14-year-old son was groomed by a predator who convinced him to send explicit photos. The family’s attorney ...

Google, OpenAI, Roblox, and Discord have formed a new non-profit organization to help improve child safety online. The Robust Open Online Safety Tools (ROOST) initiative aims to make core safety ...

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 ...