Woman, 21, is ‘virtually RAPED’ by a stranger in Meta’s metaverse app while another user ‘watched and passed around a bottle of vodka’, report claims

Daily Mail UK

By SHIVALI BEST FOR MAILONLINE

PUBLISHED: 10:57 EDT, 26 May 2022 | UPDATED: 10:10 EDT, 29 May 2022

A woman was ‘virtually raped’ by a stranger in Meta‘s Horizon Worlds metaverse app while another user ‘watched and passed around a bottle of vodka’, a new report claims.

SumOfUs, a non-profit that campaigns to curb the growing power of corporations, sent a 21-year-old researcher into the virtual world this month.

About an hour into using the platform, her avatar was sexually assaulted during a ‘disorientating and confusing experience’.