Roblox is struggling to moderate re-creations of mass shootings
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge For over a year, Anti-Defamation League researcher Daniel Kelley has been finding re-creations of a horrific mass shooting on Roblox - and every time he looks, he says he finds more. Kelley told The Verge it's happened three times: first in January 2020, then again in May 2021. The most recent incident came on August 13th, as he was preparing a presentation on how to report offending content.
I would like one time," Kelley said on Twitter after the last incident, to search for Christchurch' on Roblox and not find a new recreation of the 2019 Christchurch mosque shooting on a game platform aimed at very young children."
The mosque shooting, which killed more than 50 people, has been condemned as one of the most violent single acts of...