Content moderation in Metaverse ‘practically impossible’: Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth

Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Meta (formerly Facebook) Andrew Bosworth acknowledged that moderating how users speak and behave in Metaverse, “at any meaningful scale is practically impossible.” Although the CTO wants Metaverse to have “almost Disney levels of safety,” reported the Financial Times.

Bosworth warned that virtual reality can often be a “toxic environment” in particular for women and minorities, in an internal memo from March seen by the Financial Times. The CTO believes that harassment in virtual reality is an “existential threat” to the company.