Two former Meta employees alleged in sworn congressional testimony on Tuesday that the company’s virtual reality products have exposed children to adult content such as nudity, sexual propositions and live masturbation.
The former employees, Jason Sattizahn and Cayce Savage, worked as researchers who specialized in studying the welfare of underage users of Meta VR products. They told senators from the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology and the Law that Meta disregarded their findings, censored their attempts to do further research and, in at least one instance, deleted evidence of a youth being sexually harassed.
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Their testimony added to a yearslong controversy around CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s compa