SACRAMENTO COUNTY, Calif. — Two Bay Area-based online platforms, Roblox and Discord, are facing scrutiny from law enforcement and legal experts who say predators are using the apps to groom and ...

Since its founding, the gaming platform Roblox had a considerable drawback: Friends who wanted to play the same game together couldn't do so easily. Typically, they'd have to use a third-party app, ...

Roblox and Discord are being sued in California over claims that they enabled the sexual harassment and exploitation of a minor referred to as 'Jane Doe'. The lawsuit alleged that both platforms ...

In the depths of the Roblox criminal Discord network, a scammer from across the void shows me his best score. A screenshot materializes in the chat — it contains the uncensored username, password, and ...

The mother of a 15-year-old boy who killed himself is suing Roblox and Discord for wrongful death, alleging the apps’ lack of guardrails allowed her son to be sexually coerced by an adult predator ...

Parents assume online games for kids such as Roblox are safe, but a new lawsuit claims the apps give predators access to our kids. Most Parents are aware of concerns about social media and children, ...

The mother of a 15-year-old California boy who took his own life is now suing Roblox and Discord over his death, alleging her son was groomed and coerced to send explicit images on the apps. Rebecca ...

(CN) — In April, police found a missing 10-year-old girl and her pet bird with 27-year-old Matthew Naval, in a strip mall more than 250 miles from her home in Kern County, after the two reportedly met ...

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...

The ROOST initiative aims to provide other companies with free, open-source AI tools to help protect children online. The ROOST initiative aims to provide other companies with free, open-source AI ...

Roblox, Discord, OpenAI and Google are launching a nonprofit organization called ROOST, or Robust Open Online Safety Tools, which hopes "to build scalable, interoperable safety infrastructure suited ...