WASHINGTON - In October last year, Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg promised that "privacy and safety need to be built into the metaverse from day one" when he laid out his vision for the virtual worlds his company was building.
But researchers, journalists and activists warn that Meta's safety and privacy safeguards do not adequately protect users against virtual harassment, nor are its content moderation policies sufficiently robust yet.
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