Child safety on Roblox

, the development company of Roblox Roblox is an online game platform and game creation system developed and managed by Roblox Corporation, built around user-generated content and games, officially referred to as "experiences". Games can be created by any user through the platform's game engine, Roblox Studio, and then be shared to and played by other players. The platform is made to appeal to a family-friendly audience, and has been described as a massively multiplayer online game (MMO). While Roblox is free-to-play, it features a virtual currency known as "Robux" that can be purchased with real-world money. Robux can be used to purchase virtual items that the player can use on their virtual character (or "avatar") on the platform, or access experiences that require payment. In the second quarter of 2025, Roblox reported a daily active user count of over 100 million, its highest on record. A December 2017 study found that children ages 5 to 9 primarily spend their time playing Roblox over all other activities when using a PC. According to the company in 2020, the monthly player base included half of all American children under the age of 16. As of 2024, around 40% of all players are under the age of 13. Matt Kaufman is the chief safety officer at Roblox. The European video game content rating system PEGI classifies the game as "parental guidance recommended", while prior to September 2022 it classified the game as "suitable for 7 years and over". It cited the fact that the game hosts millions of instances of user-generated content which makes the platform difficult to classify as a whole. == Sexual predation ==

Online child exploitation groups such as 764, CVLT, and other groups affiliated with The Com have been discovered operating on Roblox, something which has been acknowledged by Roblox themselves. In 2022, a 13-year-old girl was kidnapped after a man, using Roblox, persuaded her to sneak out of her house. In 2024, Bloomberg Businessweek reported that, since 2018, at least 24 people had been arrested in the United States on charges of abducting or sexually abusing children they had groomed on Roblox. On June 25, 2025, Aftermath reported that 6 people had been arrested in the United States in connection to grooming on Roblox since the start of the year. On December 13, 2021, the YouTube channel People Make Games released a video featuring an interview with an anonymous individual who maintained to be a victim of sexting with a 24-year-old Roblox game developer, who created the Sonic the Hedgehog fangame Sonic Eclipse Online, when she was 12. Although his account was terminated, he transferred the game to a friend's account and continued to make money from the game. Roblox refused action towards the game, as they did not see it as a safety concern; Sonic owner Sega later took the game down via a copyright infringement notice after being notified. The developer would later be sentenced to 15 years in prison for paying an Uber driver to drive a 15-year-old child from Indiana to his home state of New Jersey for sex. Users have been documented evading Roblox content and chat moderation to perform sexual content by taking activity offsite to other social media platforms, especially Discord. While some communities place age limits to prevent users from joining, applications obtained by Rolling Stone for players to "work" in adjacent sexual games on the platform showed that the large majority of users in these communities were under 15. In March 2025, Roblox CEO David Baszucki said in response to concerns over child safety, "if you're not comfortable, don't let your kids be on Roblox". He stated in July 2025 that Roblox could serve as an effective online dating platform and that it could help lonely people meet in real life. The video game magazine PC Gamer described these statements as "tone-deaf". In November 2025 on the New York Times-affiliated podcast Hard Fork, Baszucki was asked his thoughts on "the problem of predators on Roblox," responding, "We think of it not necessarily just as a problem, but an opportunity as well." In September 2025, Núcleo Jornalismo launched an investigation into Roblox content aimed at children in Brazil with the support of academics and researchers from various universities in São Paulo. They found that there was a significant amount of sexual content involving minors simulating explicit acts on the platform in order to obtain Robux. Núcleo journalists claimed that much of the platform is supported by microtransactions and uses methods to make minors addicted to online purchases to a certain extent, which can be used to abuse them. Sex games screengrab of a "Roblox Condo", depicting two naked player characters with speech balloons stating "" (left) and "Wanna date" (right) A common criticism in regard to child safety on Roblox is the proliferation of games that depict sex clubs (usually termed "condo games" or "scented cons") that facilitate virtual sexual roleplay between users and how easily accessible they are to underage players. Underage teenagers have been identified as both taking part in and facilitating these games. Rolling Stone profiled one 16-year-old girl who performed child prostitution as part of these games, who stated that she primarily did it for attention and secondarily for monetary gain via Robux. Individuals taking part in these games appear to overwhelmingly identify as part of vulnerable or marginalized demographics, namely those of queer or BIPOC communities. Public Bathroom Simulator In a Twitter thread reported on by Polygon, a woman stated that when she was investigating the Roblox games that her five-year-old child was playing, she joined a game named Public Bathroom Simulator. The game mimicked a "public restroom environment". The woman reported that her character slipped on a puddle and was stuck on the ground, at which point several other players roleplayed sexually assaulting her. She also reported that her character's pants often disappeared. Hindenburg Research cited a similar game, Public Bathroom Simulator Vibe, as one of the reasons Roblox is an "X-rated pedophile hellscape". In a 2025 lawsuit by the state of Louisiana against Roblox, the state also alleged that Public Bathroom Simulator Vibe was a sexually explicit game. Anti-pedophile activism , known for the television show To Catch a Predator, created a documentary film about the state of child safety on Roblox. According to Bloomberg Businessweek, some Roblox users have become "vigilante gamers" in response to Roblox's perceived poor moderation and failure to protect children. Ben Simon, known online by the pseudonym Ruben Sim, pushed for action against the Sonic Eclipse Online developer, publishing screenshots of his alleged child rape fantasies and sending a video compiling allegations to a Roblox employee. Simon denied trying to upload any images of Hitler, but admitted that he had previously been banned when he was 15 on an account with an inappropriate name he claimed was created as a joke as well as likely having used slurs in-game around the same age. In August 2025, Roblox Corporation issued a cease-and-desist letter to Schlep, a YouTuber prominent for conducting sting operations against alleged online predators via the platform, which has resulted in multiple arrests. Roblox Corporation's letter stated that the activities of Schlep and other vigilante streamers were a violation of the platform's terms of service and created an unsafe environment for users. Concurrent with the legal notice, Roblox terminated all accounts associated with Schlep and his group, and IP-banned him from the platform. This has also prompted multiple Roblox-affiliated content creators of the Roblox Video Stars Program to leave the platform as protest. Following the controversy, Roblox Corporation's stock price fell by over 10%. The company's actions were met with major backlash from many online communities who viewed Schlep's actions as necessary for community policing. The situation escalated significantly days later and included calls for the CEO to resign and a petition by U.S. representative Ro Khanna. On August 15, Schlep said that he aims to counter-sue Roblox and that he had hired lawyers to fight its accusations. American television journalist Chris Hansen, known for the television show To Catch a Predator, said in August 2025 that he was producing a documentary film about the state of child safety on the Roblox platform, and that he had interviewed law enforcement, abuse victims, and Schlep for the project. The documentary, Dangerous Games: Investigating Roblox — A Chris Hansen Special, was released on February 27, 2026, and is available exclusively on the subscription streaming platform TruBlu. == Financial exploitation ==

'' screengrab of the Roblox marketplace, which they criticized for not giving any warning before users spend real-world money Roblox's business model has been heavily criticized, with the platform being accused of featuring exploitative practices that target children; Professor Jane Juffer at Cornell University accused Roblox of encouraging consumerism in children. Some found that the platform made it very easy to purchase microtransactions, leading to numerous instances where children have spent large sums of money on the platform without parents' knowledge. Roblox hosts many games which feature loot boxes—consumable virtual items gives items based on random chance. Loot boxes have been criticized for promoting gambling towards children. As a response, Roblox hid advertisements from users under the age of 13 starting in March 2023. However, these restrictions did not apply to advergames, leading to further criticism by Truth in Advertising and children's digital rights organization 5Rights. Investigative journalism YouTube channel People Make Games accused the platform of "exploiting" younger game developers by promising them large amounts of money from creating games, only to apply high revenue cuts and leaving creators with little to no income. They likened the platform's business model to a company scrip. ==Political extremism and violence==

'', showing a recreation of a Nazi speech. Bypassed Nazi flags are shown in-game.Roblox has been criticized several times for hosting politically extremist-related material. Examples of politically extreme content that has appeared on the platform throughout its history include content related to far-right ideologies such as neo-fascism and neo-Nazism, Online child exploitation groups which operate on the platform like 764 and CVLT are also known to hold neo-Nazi and other extremist ideologies. One high-profile group in Roblox, called "The Senate and People of Rome", outlawed "race-mixing, feminism" and homosexuality, while also requiring another player, who was Jewish, to wear a "Judea tunic or be arrested on sight". According to former members, the group's leader (who was styled as Führer) would occasionally ask high-ranking members to do things like read manuals or listen to far-right podcasts about a school shooter. The former members estimated that approximately one third of the group's leaders held overtly fascist beliefs. In July 2025, an online cult called "Spawnism" emerged in the Roblox community centering around a fictional deity known as "The Spawn" originating from the popular game Forsaken; later, online predators would target vulnerable children to carve the cult's symbol on their skin, perform degrading acts on camera, and commit severe self-harm. All of these activities took place on Discord. In March 2026, it was reported that the Roblox platform was used by the perpetrator of the 2026 Tumbler Ridge shooting to create experiences that simulated acts of violence, prompting the company to remove related content after facing backlash over how it was being used by criminals to incite violence among teenagers. == Moderation and safety updates ==

In October 2020, the Roblox Corporation reported employing approximately 1,600 full-time employees dedicated to content moderation. By 2024, the number of moderators on the platform had increased to around 3,000. Roblox developers are required to fill out a questionnaire which will determine the game's maturity rating, ranging from "minimal" to "restricted", which are only available to users who have verified they are at least 17 years old through government-issued ID. On November 18, 2024, Roblox announced that they would be implementing new safety features for children under 13 set to take effect in the first quarter of 2025. Specifically, they added new parental controls options that would block direct messaging to children outside of games, by default automatically blocking of direct messages in and outside of experiences to users under 13. They also reimplemented "experience guidelines" as "content labels" that parents could use with parental controls settings to regulate the content their child was allowed to see. By default, users under 9 were only allowed to access "minimal" and "mild" experiences, whereas "moderate" experiences would require parental consent. In May 2025, Roblox hired Dr. Elizabeth Milovidov, a former Lego Group executive, to lead parental advocacy in the company. In August 2025, Roblox announced that social hangout games featuring private spaces, such as bedrooms or bathrooms, would only be accessible to users who have verified they are at least 17 years old through government-issued ID. Roblox stated that this policy change was launched "earlier than we had planned". In September, Roblox announced it will collaborate with International Age Rating Coalition to assign age ratings to individual games, complementing Roblox's own ratings. Also in that month, Roblox disabled chat features in the Middle East in response to increased regulatory scrutiny in the region. In October 2025, Roblox planned revenue changes in order to expand child safety and moderation which caused the stock of the company to fall by 15 percent, though the company stated they expect a rising third quarter capital after the changes are made. On November 18, 2025, Roblox announced that all forms of in-game chat and experiences rated "18+" on the platform would be locked behind an age verification system. The system requires users to either upload an ID to verify their exact age or perform a facial scan via Persona to place a person into an estimated age group. Chat on the platform is further limited to users in or near the specified age groups, with exceptions for "trusted connections", Just hours after taking effect, the system began to identify some children as adults and vice versa. Developers and players alike began revolting and demanding the platform to revert the update while also claiming that the system fails to tackle the flood of predators using the platform by having the system make it easier for them to target children. Developers also claimed that the verification system could not be trusted in the sense of how they may collect and store users' faces. == Legal actions and regulation ==

Australia In February 2026, several politicians in Australia called on the country's regulators to impose more restrictions on the platform after multiple cases of grooming. Among them was Anika Wells, who had described the platform as "disturbing" after seeing how children could easily bypass the platform's security to access sexual content as well as experiences that promoted suicide and self-harm. She also requested that the game's PG rating be reviewed again by the Australian Classification Board, where it was noted that the platform hosted games intended for adults. Following the public backlash, senior Australian government officials called meetings with Roblox, where they indicated that if the company is unable to neutralize cases of child sexual abuse on its platform, it could face fines of A$49.5 million. These decisions were made by the Australian government after receiving several reports of child grooming, where it was noted that the security measures imposed by the platform were not sufficient to protect minors. Additionally, it was indicated that the platform was originally excluded from the original Online Safety Act that banned social media for minors, but following the reports, it was decided to implement protocols for platforms such as Roblox, to be applied from March 2026. Asia Central Asia In 2025, the Committee for Children's Rights Protection of the Ministry of Education of Kazakhstan issued a statement alerting parents to the presence of pedophiles on the platform. Subsequently, the General Directorate of Internal Affairs of the City of Bishkek in Kyrgyzstan issued a statement recommending that parents restrict minors' access to the platform. In December 2025, Samat Alseiitov, the deputy head of the Criminal Investigations Department of the Kyrgyz Ministry of the Interior, supported the idea of banning the platform completely in the Central Asian country after receiving multiple reports from parents' associations noting that scammers were having private conversations with children with the aim of obtaining money and personal information to extort them in the future. In January 2026, Kazakh MP Unzila Shapak proposed that the Kazakh government take action regarding Roblox's operations in the country, citing problems such as pedophilia and the presence of scammers requesting personal information from minors as being a problem. Shapak also pointed out that the platform had highly addictive elements marketed to minors, which could expose them to sexual or violent material at an early age and create certain dependencies to electronic devices. In the same month, Janybek Amatov, a member of the Kyrgyz parliament, raised restrictions on games marketed to children, such as Roblox and Minecraft, following the presence of pedophiles. Southeast Asia In August 2025, Indonesia requested that Roblox strengthen its chat filters to remove harmful content and enhance child safety, warning that failure to comply could result in a ban. Authorities in the city of Surabaya also imposed local bans on Roblox in primary and secondary schools, citing multiple incidents where sexual predators had harassed minors through the platform, following requests from the local Ministry of Education. In November 2025, the Malaysian politician Lee Lam Thye proposed a government bill that would ban Roblox citing growing concerns about user safety and exposure to inappropriate content among children where the minister of the Ministry of Women, Family and Community Development, Nancy Shukri, stated the government was weighing the possibility of banning Roblox. Malaysian authorities cited that one of the reasons they are considering a national ban on the game is because it promotes violent and inappropriate content to minors, following multiple reports from the Johor police confirming that a 9-year-old boy had seriously stabbed his brother due to his addiction to the platform. During the same period, Fahmi Fadzil, Malaysia's communications minister, had previously confirmed to local media in October that he had noticed the platform was being used to promote violence among minors and personally banned his children from using it. The minister emphasized that he had entered into talks with Roblox representatives in Southeast Asia and that one of the main topics of conversation was the stabbing incident that occurred in Johor that same month and how the platform has been hosting inappropriate games for minors in Malaysia. filed Senate Resolution No. 357 to investigate whether platforms such as Roblox were failing to maintain adequate controls to protect minors, alleging that the platform facilitated the distribution of child pornography and online grooming within the Philippines. In March 2026, Philippine authorities began taking certain measures to restrict minors, citing that Roblox was hosting groups that promoted terrorism, where the Philippine National Police's (PNP) Anti-Cybercrime Group (ACG) had notified the public that children were sharing neo-Nazi and far-right content through the platform, and that certain entities on Roblox were promoting school shootings in Calabarzon. The CICC issued a 30-day ultimatum stating that if Roblox failed to comply with child protection laws, the platform could be blocked. Another concern raised by Philippine authorities is that the platform was being used by child predator networks and was also being used to distribute drugs to minors in the country. Renato Paraiso, executive director of the CICC, urged Filipino parents to monitor their children's gaming activities due to the presence of child predators on popular platforms. General Jose Melencio Nartatez Jr., Chief of the Philippine National Police, issued a statement alleging that Roblox was facilitating crimes involving minors in the Philippines, claiming that the platform was promoting the exploitation of minors as well as grooming. On March 25, 2026, Philippine authorities decided to shorten the deadline to just 15 days after receiving multiple reports by Filipino parents that Roblox was facilitating terrorism and online sexual abuse, with the aim of pressuring the company to implement appropriate filters for children. In the same month, the CICC ordered the company to establish a physical office in the Philippines. Additionally, Philippine officials and journalists attempted to test the filters and found on several occasions that accounts designated for 7-year-olds could easily bypass the filters to access inappropriate content. The CICC also highlighted that Roblox was being used to distribute drugs and weapons, as well as child pornography. On April 7, the DICT announced that they and the CICC will no longer pursue any plans to ban Roblox in the country after a meeting with law enforcement, the private sector and representatives from Roblox Corporation, after the company announced "enhanced safeguards" to ensure children's safety on the platform through reporting mechanisms, stringent monitoring and content controls. Middle East defended the block of Roblox in Turkey by accusing it of "digital fascism". In 2018, the United Arab Emirates temporarily banned the platform in the country, becoming the first country in the Middle East to do so. Later in 2020, authorities in Jordan imposed restrictions on access to the platform. During the same period, the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Oman banned access to the platform in the sultanate after multiple reports of inappropriate content being distributed by Roblox to minors. Turkey would ban the platform in August 2024 citing concerns that the content on the platform enabled child abuse. In August 2025, concerns over child safety on the platform led to Roblox being banned in Qatar and Kuwait. In addition, members of Bahrain's parliament also began drafting a bill to ban Roblox in the country following concerns about child safety. In October 2025, the Lebanese Association for Statistics, Training, and Development urged the Lebanese government to ban the video game following reports that 30% of minors in the country could be exposed to inappropriate content. That month, Iraq also banned the game, citing child safety and its incompatibility with "social values and traditions". In November 2025, the State of Palestine announced that it had banned Roblox to protect children digitally. In February 2026, the Egyptian Supreme Council for Media Regulation passed a statement banning access to Roblox, with concerns being "internet and social media use among children". The council is currently worked with the National Telecommunications Regulatory Authority in its effort to enforce the ban. On February 3, the Egyptian government decided to completely ban the platform following a decision by the Supreme Council for Media Regulation (SCMR), which had determined that the platform's content posed significant risks to minors over "violent content". Africa In September 2025, Algerian authorities banned the game, citing that the company did not have sufficient tools and capacity to protect children, where the vast majority of Algerian users were under the age of 10 and were being exposed to sexual harassment and inappropriate content on the platform. In the same month, the Al-Azhar Fatwa Global Center became the first major Egyptian organization to warn parents that the Roblox platform was hosting a significant amount of inappropriate content from chats and games for minors, including Islamophobic imagery, and urged the Egyptian government to take action to restrict access to the platform in the country. In September 2025, MP Touria Afife, a member of the Justice and Development Party, also supported the Moroccan government's monitoring of the platform after evaluating various reports, such as the one by Hidenburg Research, which describes Roblox as "Pedophile Hell", as well as the fact that many minors in Morocco were accessing the platform without protection, calling for investigations by the Ministry of Digital Transition and Administrative Reform. In December 2025, the Moroccan government took the first steps to moderate the platform and other online games after repeated warnings from several members of parliament who voiced their concern that the platform could be a danger to minors such as Fatima Zahra Afif. In addition, some members of the Moroccan parliament had been considering taking a much stronger approach to Roblox after authorities in neighboring Algeria had decided to ban it completely a few months earlier. Europe The Netherlands and Belgium have restricted certain games on the platform due to their regulations on in-game "loot boxes", which give out items based on random or unknown chances, to reduce children's exposure to gambling. In 2025, the Danish Gambling Authority released reports detailing how Roblox is exploiting and financially abusing children through its Robux currency, noting that the platform was employing tactics similar to those used by betting sites targeting minors. In October 2025, the Attorney General's Office in Lleida, Catalonia, Spain, launched a series of investigations following several reports from parents whose children had been harassed through Roblox. In addition, the Spanish Civil Guard also issued a statement saying that reports of sex offenders using Roblox to extort minors were becoming much more frequent in Spain, where they recorded cases of several minors in Murcia who had begun to interact and maintain direct contact with pedophiles in southern Spain. In the same month, the Dutch government began reviewing Roblox over child safety concerns. In December 2025, access to Roblox was blocked in Russia due to it allegedly containing extremist material and "international LGBT propaganda", with Roskomnadzor saying that the platform was "rife with inappropriate content that can negatively impact the spiritual and moral development of children". In January 2026, the Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) launched investigations to probe whether the platform was safe in the European Union after multiple reports and lawsuits claiming that the platform was a danger to minors. In the same month, Sarah El Haïry, the High Commissioner for Children (), publicly stated that issues such as pedophilia and sexual harassment on the platform were causing concern among French regulators. El Haïry also emphasized that the conversation about protecting children online should also include video games and not just social media in general. On January 8, 2026, the Human Rights Commission of the Republic of Azerbaijan (Ombudsman) issued a public appeal to parents, expressing concerns that the platform is promoting cyberbullying and grooming of minors, and stating that parents should begin restricting access to Roblox due to the ineffectiveness of existing filters in protecting children on the platform. On March 19, 2026, the Azerbaijan State Committee on Family, Women, and Children’s Affairs met with company representatives to express serious concern about how the platform was negatively impacting the mental health and safety of minors in the country. The committee stated that the company was not implementing sufficient safeguards and tools to protect minors, and considered blocking access to the platform in the country following multiple violations of local laws. On March 20, 2026, Petition No. 1546/2025, submitted by representatives from Latvia, and Petition No. 1632/2025, submitted by representatives from Greece, were deemed admissible by the European Parliament on the grounds that the Roblox platform was not implementing adequate security measures for minors, noting that the tools on the platform were not sufficiently effective. Latin America Throughout the 2020s, the cyber police divisions of several Mexican states have reported numerous cases of sexual harassment of minors through Roblox, including the federal government of Chihuahua, which from 2021 to 2025 reported an increase in cases of grooming using the platform. Other federal governments, such as Coahuila and Nuevo León, sent communications to parents stating that Roblox was being used to extort minors. Meanwhile, in 2024, the Mexico City Cyber Police and the Secretariat of Citizen Security (SCC) also reported that Roblox was being used to promote criminal activity such as the distribution of drugs and illicit substances to minors in the Mexican capital. The government of Guatemala issued a warning about the platform to parents in 2021. Between 2023 and 2024, the Public Ministry of Labor () of Sao Paulo launched an investigation into monetization on the platform and how the American company was taking advantage of young developers in Brazil, where the company did not provide them with proper payment for their work. Roblox had previously clarified to the Federal Government of São Paulo that its monetization model was not abusive and that minors had previously consented to the platform monetizing their content. However, this response caused some disagreement with Luísa Carvalho Rodrigues, representative of Coordinfância ( lit. National Coordination for Combating the Labor Exploitation of Children and Adolescents), the branch of the Public Ministry of Labor that regulates child labor in Brazil, quoting ''"Just because it's fun doesn't mean it's not work, if the requirements of an employment relationship are met."'' following investigations comparing it to child labor in the Brazilian state regarding the platform monetization and corcerns from parents. In October 2024, the Panamanian Police issued a public statement about "Operación Roblox" in Puerto Caimito in the District of La Chorrera, where Panamanian authorities in collaboration with Spanish cybercrime intelligence, coordinated investigative efforts to dismantle a pedophile network that produced child pornography through the extortion of minors using Roblox social features. Within the same month, Venezuelan authorities noted that Roblox was being used by local pedophile networks to extort minors. The Division of Cybercrime of the Scientific, Penal, and Criminal Investigations Corps (CICPC) was the first Venezuelan government organization to issue a national statement warning that the platform was not safe and that parents should monitor their children's chats. In August 2025, the Defensoría del Pueblo de la Provincia de Catamarca informed parents in the Argentine province that the platform's security was insufficient to protect minors and that in recent years cases of sexual harassment of minors were becoming more frequent in the province thanks to Roblox. Between September and December 2025, authorities in the states of Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul informed parents that the platform was being used by pedophile networks to solicit sexual and self-harm videos from minors in exchange for Robux in cities in southern Brazil. In November 2025, the Ministry of Education of the City of Buenos Aires in Argentina issued an indefinite block on the platform on public school computers after receiving multiple reports of grooming. The Ministry of Education made this decision after a case of child exploitation in which the platform was being actively used by pedophiles based in the city of Cipolletti, who requested intimate photos of minors in exchange for Robux. Following the platform ban in Buenos Aires, the secretaries of public education in the provinces of Córdoba, Mendoza and Misiones issued regional bans on Roblox on all public school devices after multiple reports of grooming and child harassment. Following the implementation of the Felca Law in March 2026, Brazilian regulators have classified Roblox as an 18+ game due to its use of microtransactions, which are likened to online gambling, and to prevent potential addiction among minors. Following the enforcement of the law, the company entered into discussions with the Brazilian Ministry of Justice to reassess the game's rating, given that the platform is primarily used by minors in the country. United States In October 2022, a lawsuit was filed by a parent in the San Francisco Superior Court. The lawsuit alleges that Roblox connected their daughter with online predators, who sexually exploited her by coercing her to send sexually explicit photos to them on Discord and Snapchat; those corporations were also named in the lawsuit. In August 2023, a class-action lawsuit was brought against Roblox Corporation. The lawsuit alleges that Roblox profited off of minors when they bought Robux to participate in third-party gambling rings, violating the RICO act. That same month, a different class action lawsuit was filed by parents against Roblox for false advertising, exposing children to sexual content, and enabling children to spend large amounts of their parents' money on Robux. In February 2025, Bloomberg News reported that Roblox was under investigation by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for unknown reasons. From February to May 2025, law firm Anapol Weiss filed four different lawsuits against Roblox on behalf of children for alleged exploitation by adults. The law firm stated it was "investigating hundreds of similar cases" and intended to file more lawsuits in the subsequent months. Roblox stated they could not comment on ongoing litigation per company policy. On August 14, 2025, Louisiana attorney general Liz Murrill filed a child protection lawsuit against Roblox Corporation. The suit alleged that by actively shutting down independent efforts to expose potential dangers on its platform, Roblox was failing in its duty to protect its underage users from harm. Roblox Corporation responded to the lawsuit on August 15, stating that they continuously work "to enhance our moderation approaches to promote a safe and enjoyable environment for all users". On September 15, 2025, Oklahoma attorney general Gentner Drummond announced that he was seeking outside law firms to investigate Roblox over alleged child exploitation and safety failures. He requested that law firms investigate, gather evidence, and potentially take legal action against Roblox Corporation on behalf of the state. On October 6, 2025, Kentucky attorney general Russell Coleman filed a lawsuit against the Roblox Corporation, saying that "Roblox has insufficient guardrails for children and therefore exposes them to child predators, violence and sexually explicit material." On October 30, 2025, a family in Miami-Dade County, Florida, filed a lawsuit against both Roblox and Discord citing allegations of failing to protect and maintain the safety of their 11-year-old daughter from a pedophile after the pedophile met her on Roblox and turned communications off-platform to Discord. On November 6, 2025, Texas attorney general Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit against the Roblox Corporation, alleging that the company misleadingly promoted its platform as a safe environment for children. On December 16, 2025, South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson announced an investigation into the Roblox Corporation. On the same day, Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird filed a lawsuit against Roblox Corporation for allegedly failing to protect children from exploitation. On December 18, 2025, the Attorney General of Tennessee Jonathan Skrmetti would sue Roblox for misleading parents about child safety, saying that "Roblox is the digital equivalent of a creepy cargo van lingering at the edge of a playground". In February 2026, Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr launched an investigation into Roblox following instances and reports of child exploitation. Los Angeles County also filed a lawsuit against Roblox, claiming the platform "makes children easy prey for pedophiles" and "fail[s] to implement reasonable and readily available safety measures". On March 4, 2026, Nebraska Attorney General Mike Hilgers filed a lawsuit against Roblox, accusing the platform of becoming a "playground" for child predators and misleading parents and guardians about the safety precautions taken on the platform. On April 15, 2026, a settlement was reached with the state of Nevada, as it was in preparation to file a lawsuit claiming the platform lacked basic features to protect children from predators and exploitation. Roblox agreed to pay $10 million supporting children's programs in Nevada over the next three years, as well as $2.5 million on an awareness campaign regarding child safety online and a staff law enforcement liaison. On April 21, 2026, it was announced that a settlement in Alabama and West Virginia requires Roblox to implement age verification and restrict chat for users under 16. Roblox has agreed to pay over $23,000,000 to both states. The West Virginia Attorney General JB McCuskey, said in a statement that the settlement came from the state's investigation into Roblox, which found that the platform exposed the youth to predators, grooming, and sexual and violent content. McCuskey and his office states that the $11,080,000 will go to the state, which will use the funding for a West Virginia safety specialist, child safety workshops for parents, legal guardians and children in the state and an awareness campaign for parents/guardians, and the leftover money will go into the state's consumer protection fund. Alabama states that the $12,200,000 will be used to fund school resource officers across the state. Alabama would receive ‌$5 ⁠million more if Roblox violates the terms of the settlement over the next four years. On May 7, 2026, Indiana is suing and filled a 70 page lawsuit against Roblox and Discord. The Attorney General Todd Rokita is alleging the platforms has not made sufficient measures to protect children against predators online, and the effectiveness of the safety features that were released “remain to be seen”. The lawsuit says Roblox claims it has robust features to protect children that fall short, with sexually explicit content accessible on the platform. The lawsuit said predators form online friendships with children and then attempt to exploit them with the "Robux" currency empowering predators. The companies are accused of violating the Indiana Deceptive Consumer Sales Act by failing to employ adequate safeguards for children and warnings for parents and guardians about objectionable content and misrepresenting the safety of their platforms. == References ==