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VRChat has a minimum age requirement of 13, but can be downloaded without any checks (BBC)[/caption]
Following the findings, the Children's Commissioner for England, Dame Rachel de Souza, has said she is "really horrified" by the findings and has called out Meta for not making these online spaces safe enough for children.
She said: "I'm really concerned that Meta hasn't made their metaverse safe by design - we have an Age Appropriate Design Code - and I expected better of them.
"Are you telling me that Mark Zuckerberg, with all his fantastic engineers and ability to create this, can't keep children safe?
"That's my challenge to the social media companies and they should be stepping up now."
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Children can enter strip clubs and mingle with grown men (BBC)[/caption]
Head of online child safety policy at the NSPCC, Andy Burrows, said there was "a toxic combination of risks."
He said: "This is a product that is dangerous by design, because of oversight and neglect.
"We are seeing products rolled out without any suggestion that safety has been considered."
Meta's product manager for VR integrity Bill Stillwell said in a statement: "We want everyone using our products to have a good experience and easily find the tools that can help in situations like these, so we can investigate and take action."
He added: "For cross platform apps…we provide tools that allow players to report and block users.
"We will continue to make improvements as we learn more about how people interact in these spaces."
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