Meta was warned not to let teens into Horizon Worlds, but it’s doing it anyway

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As predicted a couple months ago, Meta has decided to let teenagers into its currently 18+ Horizon Worlds virtual-reality app, which is the flagship of the company’s quest to make the metaverse happen.

It was clear back then that this would be a controversial move, and that point was driven home last month when Democratic Sens. Ed Markey (Mass.) and Richard Blumenthal (Conn.) urged The Company Formerly Known as Facebook to change course. Markey even condemned the plan as “just another flagrant attempt to exploit young people for profit.”