Roblox Is Playing Dumb About the Bots and Predators on Its Platform, Hindenburg Research Says

Hindenburg found the platform recently had hundreds of active accounts under different variations of the name Jeffrey Epstein. Roblox is being dishonest about how many actual humans use its platform, Hindenburg research alleges

Roblox has been targeted by short-selling firm Hindenburg Research over allegations that the company inflates the number of real humans on its platform and has not gone far enough to protect children against predators.

Players will create multiple accounts for a variety of reasons, such as to evade bans. But Hindenburg’s report focuses more on Roblox’s system for paying developers of games on the platform. Anyone who builds a game on Roblox can earn money when players, for instance, buy in-game items using Robux. Crucially, users can also earn “engagement-based payouts .

“Web forums detail developer strategies for creating features that encourage bots and zombie engagement.” One former data scientist at Roblox told Hindenburg that it believed its daily active users could be 20-30 percent lower if not counting instances of users holding multiple accounts. Roblox is perhaps the first truly successful metaverse product where adolescents can hang out with friends and socialize digitally in an ostensibly safe environment. But the company ha

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