How Safe is the Metaverse?
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Slate Podcasts
4.3 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 11 February 2022
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Facebook’s first crack at the metaverse has a problem: kids. Underage users seem to be flooding Horizon Worlds, potentially putting themselves at risk.
Is Meta doomed to repeat Facebook’s mistakes?
Guest: Will Oremus, technology news analysis writer for the Washington Post.
Host: Lizzie O’Leary
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| 0:00.0 | Between forgetting the sellotape, |
| 0:01.6 | trying to squeeze eight people around a six-seater table |
| 0:04.1 | and the cat taking down the tree. |
| 0:06.1 | Again! |
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| 0:26.5 | Simple. Offer end 31st of December for details online. |
| 0:30.3 | Heads up. You might not want to listen to this show with kids. |
| 0:34.3 | We talk about some pretty heavy stuff. |
| 0:40.9 | Last month, Washington Post reporter Willa Remiss |
| 0:44.0 | spent a weekend afternoon with his Oculus headset on. |
| 0:47.8 | He was messing around in Facebook's new virtual reality platform, |
| 0:51.6 | Horizon Worlds. |
| 0:53.1 | During the afternoon, I was wandering around |
| 0:55.6 | and just checking out the various random games |
| 0:59.0 | that users have built in there. |
| 1:01.2 | And what do you see, what do you like? |
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