Ed Markey and Richard Blumenthal, Democratic senators from Massachusetts and Connecticut, criticize the idea of opening Horizon Worlds, Meta's flagship metaverse app, to teens 13 years and up.
Meta, the social network company, is getting some pushback on its plan to market and bring Horizon Worlds, its flagship metaverse app, to teens. Democratic senators Ed Markey and Richard Blumenthal directed a letter to the company to halt these actions, citing concerns about the interactions that teens could have in Meta’s virtual worlds.Two Democratic senators have written a letter asking Meta to stop its recently reported plan of opening its metaverse world to teens.
that “the cumulative set of immersive virtual reality experiences a teenager would confront on the socially-driven Horizon Worlds are distinct from their use of a virtual reality headset to, for example, play a specific single-player game. Inviting young teens into this environment, therefore, poses serious risks.”
Markey and Blumenthal call for halting the plan to protect the health of these young users and their privacy in the metaverse, calling out the company for its previous mistakes involving this demographic.on Meta’s plan of including teens in its metaverse on Feb. 7. According to an internal memo obtained by the news outlet, the company’s new strategy included opening the Horizon Worlds experience to teens aged 13 years old and up.
According to WSJ, Meta’s memo reinforces the need of pushing these services to young users in order to keep growing. Horizon Worlds VP Gabriel Aul reportedly stated: Today our competitors are doing a much better job meeting the unique needs of these cohorts. For Horizon to succeed we need to ensure that we serve this cohort first and foremost.
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