- AGs in Iowa and Oklahoma advanced separate consumer protection actions against Roblox over allegations that the gaming platform misrepresented its child-safety protections and exposed minors to unsafe online interactions.
- In Iowa, a court partially denied Roblox’s motion to dismiss AG Brenna Bird’s Iowa Consumer Fraud Act lawsuit, allowing the State’s deception claims and several unfair-practices theories to proceed, while dismissing some claims based on content moderation, age-appropriate content, chat filter bypasses, and generally addictive gameplay as barred by Section 230.
- Oklahoma AG Gentner Drummond sued Roblox under the Oklahoma Consumer Protection Act, alleging that the company misrepresented the platform as safe for children while allowing minors to create accounts without parental knowledge, communicate with strangers, and be targeted by adults posing as children; the suit seeks civil penalties, a permanent injunction, and other relief.
- The actions add to growing AG scrutiny of child safety on Roblox, following previously reported actions involving Indiana, Alabama, Nevada, West Virginia, Texas, Nebraska, Florida, South Carolina, Georgia, and Louisiana.