“Roblox, in effect, serves as an initial access point to children for predators. Once on another app, like Discord, predators escalate their exploitation by soliciting explicit material.

Starting in early 2020, S.U. came into contact with adult men through Roblox, who encouraged her to sign up for Discord, Snapchat and Instagram to communicate with them, according to the lawsuit.

According to numbers compiled by the social media consulting firm Backlinko, Roblox has more than 43 million active users a day (up from 14 million in 2016), 40 million games and 9.5 million ...