Metaverse

  Meta’s metaverse is rife with predatory and toxic behaviour, and the company just announced it’s going to let teens on there. This morally bankrupt tech giant will do anything to make a profit. This community came together and stopped Meta’s nightmarish Instagram for kids. Now we need to pressure Meta to shelve this teen metaverse horror. [ Sign the petitionÂ]( SumOfUs has changed its name to Ekō. Help us avoid ending up in spam and mark this email as safe. {NAME}, Sexual assault, racist slurs, gun violence - Ekō researchers only spent an hour in the metaverse before experiencing the dark side of Meta’s platform. And now Meta wants to open up the metaverse to teens. Meta’s greed-driven execs have tried this before. Remember Meta’s nightmarish Instagram for kids? Meta shelved that plan after a massive public backlash. If we act fast, and we make a huge public outcry, we can force Meta to drop its toxic metaverse for teens too. [Sign and share: Zuckerberg pull the plug on metaverse for teens.]( Just this week we joined a massive coalition of civil society groups and child development experts calling on Zuckerberg to terminate his plans -- if we can demonstrate the public outcry, we can make sure he listens. With crashing share prices and younger users leaving in their droves for TikTok, Meta is desperate to turn its fortunes around. That’s why it's pushing this plan to get teens in its toxic metaverse - make a quick profit, and to hell with the harm it might do to young teenagers. Meta says that users in the metaverse can turn on safety features that protect them from the most toxic behaviour. Yet again, these clueless tech bros push the responsibility on users to keep themselves safe from their harmful and predatory apps. Facebook, Instagram and TikTok are fuelling a massive mental health crisis - our kids desperately need these tech platforms to stop exploiting them for profit. [Meta: drop your metaverse for teens.]( The Ekō community forced Zuckerberg to ditch Instagram for kids. Now let’s make sure he doesn’t push his latest hellscape onto young teens. [ Sign the petitionÂ]( Thanks for all that you do, Vicky and the team at Ekō More information: [Meta’s Horizon Worlds has been a dud. Now the company is hoping to open up its metaverse to teenagers]( Fortune, February 7, 2023 [Meta Pursues Teen Users as Horizon Metaverse App Struggles to GrowÂ]( Wall Street Journal, February 7, 2023     --------------------------------------------------------------- Ekō is a community of people from around the world committed to curbing the growing power of corporations. We want to buy from, work for and invest in companies that respect the environment, treat their workers well and respect democracy. And we’re not afraid to stand up to them when they don’t. Please help keep Ekō strong by chipping in $3 [Chip in $3]( This email was sent to {EMAIL}. | [Unsubscribe](  Â