Metaverse could harm Facebook: Says Andrew Bosworth
Meta CTO says virtual reality could be a toxic environment He wanted the company’s metaverse as safe as Disney’s. Meta chief technology officer (CTO) and former Facebook employee Andrew Bosworth stated that virtual reality may be a toxic environment, particularly for women and minorities in an internal message. The document, which goes back to March, stated that removing mainstream customers from Metaverse would pose an existential threat to Facebook. In the email, Bosworth cautioned that bullying and other undesirable conduct might be amplified in an interactive environment such as VR,…