UPDATE 5.30pm UK: Roblox has responded further to Bloomberg’s article, and has now said the report fails to properly contextualise the scale of the game’s issues with player safety versus the size of its platform.
“A recent article contained glaring mischaracterisations about how we protect users of all ages on the platform and failed to reflect both the complexities of online child safety and the realities of the overwhelmingly positive experiences that tens of millions of people of all ages have on Roblox every single day,” a Roblox spokesperson said in a statement to Eurogamer, providing a link to a lengthy blog post by the company’s chief safety officer Matt Kaufman.
ORIGINAL STORY 4.30pm UK:
Roblox’s record on child safety has come under fire yet again, this time in a damning new Bloomberg report that details the scale of the issue faced by the game’s developers, who are unable to keep all of its young players safe.
Last year, Roblox itself reported 13,316 instances of child exploitation to US authorities, and responded to over 1300 requests from authorities for detail on predatory players.
In the last six years, at least two dozen people hav…