Reporters for both the BBC and the Mirror discovered a disturbing amount of pornographic material and simulated sex acts taking place while posing as 13-year-old girls in an Apple-hosted VR game using Facebook’s Meta Quest headset.
Users only need to use their Facebook VR headset, formerly known as Oculus Quest, to download the VRChat app in the Apple Store to join in on the adult online activities.
Sadly, despite the game being rated for ages 13 and older, many users encountered by the journalists were suspected to be much younger than 13.
According to the Mirror, “Millions of families now have the VR headsets, now called Meta Quest, while the Oculus app needed to play on them was the most popular on Apple’s App Store over Christmas, with 1.3 million downloads worldwide.”
The reporter for the UK outlet described witnessing an adult encouraging a teenage girl to “kill herself” and “a robot avatar with a deep voice” using the screen name “pedo” who disappeared to a private area with a different young girl.
Within six minutes, the investigation documented “racist, homophobic and misogynistic language, bullying and threats, as well as explicitly sexual conversation and abusive behaviour, including simulating sex, virtual sexual harassment and masturbation” with children present.
At one point, a group of children watched a user with a SpongeBob SquarePants avatar perform sexual acts.
A spokesperson for a far-left charity focused on countering digital hate referred to Meta as “a cesspit of hate, pornography and child grooming.”
On Wednesday, the BBC published an article detailing a similar experience their reporter had while posing as a 13-year-old girl, stumbling upon “strip clubs and dungeons” in the VRChat app.
A man in the VR world told the journalist users can “get naked and do unspeakable things.”
“There are two people to the side of me now who are trying to get on top of each other,” the researcher described.
“I was surprised how totally immersed in the spaces you are. I started to feel like a child again,” the BBC journalist explained. “So when grown men were asking why I wasn’t in school and encouraging me to engage in VR sex acts, it felt all the more disturbing.”
Footage of the reporter’s VR experience, slightly censored by blurring, shows a group of avatars engaging in an orgy before another character in the false reality threatens to “fuck” a user and rape their sister.
Another person investigating these virtual worlds, consultant agency head Catherine Allen, claims she once stepped in and prevented a group of adult men from “raping” a seven-year-old girl while using a Meta-owned app.
The NSPCC (National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children) responded to the BBC report, calling it “extraordinary” that children are being exposed to these “harmful experiences.”
“This is a product that is dangerous by design, because of oversight and neglect. We are seeing products rolled out without any suggestion that safety has been considered,” a group spokesperson said.
Social media’s negative physical and mental health effects on society have been well-documented and the growing realm of virtual reality will inevitably do harm we cannot currently fathom.
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