Leaked Documents Reveal How Roblox Handles Grooming and Mass Shooting Simulators

Leaked Documents Reveal How Roblox Handles Grooming and Mass Shooting Simulators

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A newly released cache of documents provide unprecedented insight into how Roblox, one of the most popular gaming platforms in the world that half of all children in the U.S play, moderates content. The documents show everything from how executives at the company talk about and moderate mass shooting simulators to how big of a “bulge” in player-designed clothes is an issue for the platform. They also give insight into the targeting of children by predators on the platform and how the platform attempts to fight child grooming.

The documents, which were stolen by a hacker and published online, includes internal discussions about how to respond to some of the highest-profile content moderation challenges the platform has faced, such as how and when to remove user-made games that simulate mass shootings and how to respond to media inquiries about strip clubs in the game. They also include a spreadsheet with a scoring system for specific banned terms that can be used in chat; the scoring system is seemingly intended to determine the severity of a specific phrase and is broken into categories that include "bullying," "sexting," "underage," "racist," "grooming," "subversive," "self_harm," "religion," and more.