Metaverse can pose an ‘existential threat’ to Facebook, warns Meta

San Francisco: Meta (formerly Facebook) is aware that virtual reality can be a “toxic environment” especially for women and minorities, and Metaverse would be an “existential threat” to Facebook if it turned off “mainstream customers from the medium entirely”, the media reported.

According to a report in Financial Times citing an internal memo by Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth, Facebook aims its virtual worlds to have “almost Disney levels of safety”.

However, Bosworth acknowledged that moderating how users speak and behave “at any meaningful scale is practically impossible”, the FT report said on Friday.