A lawsuit against Bay Area tech companies Roblox and Discord filed last week alleges that the apps are hunting grounds for ...

Roblox and Discord are being sued by the mother of a 15-year-old boy who died by suicide after allegedly being targeted by “an adult sex predator” posing as a child on the platforms. A wrongful death ...

Journalist Jo Ling Kent joined CBS News in July 2023 as the senior business and technology correspondent for CBS News. Kent has more than 15 years of experience covering the intersection of technology ...

Two lawsuits filed on behalf of a Wake County teen and a Cumberland County teen allege that popular apps Roblox and Discord created an environment that allowed a Louisiana man to exploit her online.

A Florida girl was allegedly groomed and sexually exploited on Roblox and Discord, two platforms widely used by children, according to a lawsuit filed in California. The case comes amid a wave of ...

Roblox Corporation (NYSE:RBLX) shares are falling after news broke of a new lawsuit seeking to hold the gaming platform and Discord accountable for allegedly enabling the sexual exploitation of a ...

The mother of a 15-year-old California boy who took his own life is now suing Roblox and Discord over his death, alleging her son was groomed and coerced to send explicit images on the apps. Rebecca ...

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...

The mother of a 15-year-old boy who killed himself is suing Roblox and Discord for wrongful death, alleging the apps’ lack of guardrails allowed her son to be sexually coerced by an adult predator ...

Attorneys representing a 13-year-old boy in a lawsuit against Bay Area tech companies Roblox and Discord are alleging that the platforms’ lack of safeguards allows predators to sexually exploit and ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - A lawsuit filed on Thursday accuses two major online platforms of allowing a Charleston 11-year-old to be groomed by an adult predator, resulting in life-altering trauma. The ...