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A researcher posing as a 13-year-old child was able to gain access to a virtual strip club via a metaverse app called VRChat.

No Kids Allowed

"It's children being exposed to entirely inappropriate, really incredibly harmful experiences."

Turns Out It's Really Easy for Kids to Visit Sex Clubs in the Metaverse

Facebook, wants virtual AR content to interact with real world objects in mixed reality headsets and told ad agencies how ads can use the tech.

Ad Nightmare

That just sounds awful.

Facebook Reveals Plan to Plaster AR Ads Over All of Reality

A former executive of Meta has left the company after a video of him allegedly attempting to solicit sex from a minor went viral on Thursday.

Metaverse Monster

In light of the company's struggles to moderate its own platforms, this is a bad look.

Facebook Exec Caught Allegedly Trying to Meet 13-Year-Old in Hotel Room

Mark Zuckerberg announced during an all-hands company meeting that his employees wouldn't be coworkers anymore. They'd be "metamates."

Lethal Cringe

Sources say he wasn’t laughing. 

Mark Zuckerberg Tells Employees They're Called "Metamates" Now

Foo Fail

There goes my hero!

Fans Say the Foo Fighters' Metaverse Concert Was A Total Disaster

Meta aired a rather bizarre Super Bowl ad for its Quest 2 virtual reality headset, in which it compared its customers to a thrown away animatronic.

Don't You Forget About Me

That's quite an image.

In Bizarre Super Bowl Ad, Facebook Imagines Its Users as Robot Dogs Stuffed into Trash Compactor

Aviva, a UK-based insurance company, says that it has seen a 31 percent spike in home accident claims involving VR headsets in 2021, The Guardian reports. It’s also seen a 68 percent rise in such claims since 2016.

Buyer Beware!

Sounds like the metaverse is going great. 

Insurance Company Says VR Headsets Are Causing Spike in Smashed TVs

Child safety experts are sounding the alarm on the metaverse saying that it will attract sexual predators preying on kids using apps such as Horizon Worlds.

To Meta Predator

"They’ll go there first to take advantage of the fact that it is a safe ground for them to abuse or groom kids."

Experts Warn of Child Predators in Mark Zuckerberg’s Metaverse

During a pivotal meeting, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg gave a very bizarre reason for looking like he was about to cry on camera.

Cry Harder

Uh, what's going on, Mark?

Mark Zuckerberg Reportedly Had Red Eyes and a Weird Excuse at Company-Wide Meeting

More people are getting injured using virtual reality headsets than ever before because, well, more people are buying them than ever before. 

Ouchie

Devices

One man even broke his neck.

Virtual Reality Users Keep Suffering Horrible Injuries

A clip uploaded by NFT enthusiast and blockchain CTO Alex Moss purportedly shows a "live rave" taking place inside Meta's VR playground for adults.

Yawn

"This was obviously created by someone who has never been to a rave."

Metaverse "Rave" Shows People Standing Perfectly Still With Zero Energy

The metaverse has already proven to be cash cows for investors looking to make millions off of literally nothing.

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