NBW News Female researcher’s avatar sexually assaulted on Meta’s metaverse platform
- A researcher entered the metaverse wanting to study users’ behavior on Meta’s social-networking platform Horizon World.
- Users invited the researcher to a private party on Horizon World earlier this month. Users in the same room then asked her to disable a setting that prevented others from getting within 4 feet of her.
- The report linked to a video that the group says shows what happened to the researcher’s avatar from her perspective.
