内容摘要：Soil is lose and the cliff edge is getting closer, but both the local council and a nearby business said it was nothing to do with them.

Soil is lose and the cliff edge is getting closer, but both the local council and a nearby business said it was nothing to do with them.

Ellie Gibson - from the Scummy Mummies podcast - said Mr Baszucki's message risked sounding "a bit of a get out"."It's much easier said than done, especially when all their friends are playing it," she told the BBC.

US-based Roblox is one of the world's largest games platforms, with more monthly users than Nintendo Switch and Sony PlayStation combined. In 2024 it averaged more than 80 million players per day – roughly 40% of them below the age of 13. Its vast empire includes some 40 million user-generated games and experiences.In the UK the Online Safety Act, which comes in to force in April, has strict laws for all tech firms specifically aimed at protecting children from online harms.But Mr Baszucki says he remains confident in Roblox's safety tools and insists the firm goes above and beyond to keep its users safe.

"We do in the company take the attitude that any bad, even one bad incident, is one too many," he says."We watch for bullying, we watch for harassment, we filter all of those kinds of things, and I would say behind the scenes, the analysis goes on all the way to, if necessary, reaching out to law enforcement."

Players who choose not to display what he calls "civility" can face temporary time-outs and longer bans, and Roblox claims to analyse all communications that pass between members on the platform, increasingly using more advanced AI systems and other tech to do so — and anything flagged is sent for further investigation.

In November last year, under 13s were banned from sending direct messages, and also from playing in "hangout experiences" which features chat between players.Chad has given no official reason for the arrest of Shugalei and his two associates.

Multiple theories abound – some more plausible than others.Russian state-controlled news channel RT reported that the arrests were instigated by France, but this is most likely a fiction designed to save face, Ms Ochieng tells the BBC.

Since at least May, Russia has been pushing the narrative that the West's traditional influence in Chad is waning.But, although Chad has recently signed deals with Russia on infrastructure and security, it still hosts French troops, and retains good relations with the former colonial power, unlike several of its Francophone neighbours which have tilted towards Russia.