Moderation News
The latest Moderation coverage curated for game developers.
GamesIndustry.biz says Club Penguin veteran Stephen MacDonald is building Imagine Island, a kid-focused social MMO meant to revive the safety-first spirit of the Disney era without leaning on Roblox. Backed …
Roblox is open-sourcing three AI safety models through ROOST, including its PII Classifier, Sentinel, and a real-time voice moderation system. The move gives other platforms a working baseline for detecting …
Roblox is now under U.S. Senate scrutiny after reporting 65,381 suspected child abuse incidents in 2025. The scale of the moderation problem raises hard questions for any platform running user-generated …
The US Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism has opened an investigation into Roblox, accusing the platform of putting revenue and engagement ahead of child safety. Senators are demanding …
Roblox is defending its push to become a global standard for digital safety while facing multiple lawsuits over child endangerment claims. For developers, the bigger story is how platform-scale moderation, …
Roblox has crossed the EU’s 45 million monthly-user threshold, putting it in line for Digital Services Act scrutiny as a potential very large online platform. If designated, it would need …
An AI moderation system is now being pitched as a live defense against grooming and broader social manipulation in voice chat. Aiba says its Amanda tool can flag risky conversations …
A proposed UK social media ban could spill over into game platforms that rely on social features, moderation, and youth accounts. For studios and platform teams, the practical risk is …