Lisa M. Given receives funding from the Australian Research Council. She is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and the Association for Information Science and Technology.

Roblox is stepping up its age verification system for users who want to privately message other players and implementing age-based chats so kids, teens and adults will only be able to message people ...

Roblox is starting to roll out the mandatory age checks that will require all of its users to submit an ID or scan their face in order to access the platform's chat features. The updated policy, which ...

Half of the U.S. population under the age of 16 are playing Roblox. Here's how to keep your kids safe on the platform. Credit: Gabby Jones/Bloomberg via Getty Images Grow a Garden. 99 Nights in the ...

A lawsuit alleges the platform helped facilitate child sexual exploitation. A father's lawsuit against the online gaming platform Roblox will remain in the public eye after a California judge denied ...

The popular online gaming platform Roblox, which hosts millions of user-created games, is being sued by families and state attorneys general who claim online predators can groom, extort and exploit ...

Shares of Roblox Corp (NYSE: RBLX) are trading higher Monday morning following news that video game giant Electronic Arts is set to go private in a landmark leveraged buyout. Here’s what investors ...

Every day, tens of millions of young people dive into Roblox to build, connect and compete. But with that scale comes opportunity, not just for game designers and players, but also for cybercriminals ...

While Roblox brass says it’s taking the accusations of some users exhibiting predatory and grooming behavior, as well as a wrongful death lawsuit, leveled against the youth-centric gaming platform ...

The mother of a 15-year-old boy who killed himself is suing Roblox and Discord for wrongful death, alleging the apps’ lack of guardrails allowed her son to be sexually coerced by an adult predator ...

DENVER — A popular YouTuber known as Schlep has a warning for parents about Roblox after the company banned him from the platform for exposing alleged child predators. Schlep, whose real name is ...