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Roblox is one of those games that is more popular than you can imagine, but unless you are of a certain age group and live in that world, you\u2019ll rarely hear about it unless it makes the news for some terrible reason. More recently, for example, we wrote about the Tumbler Ridge shooter who created a mass shooting simulator in Roblox.But what is Roblox, how big is it exactly, and why does it seem like it’s so frequently embroiled in controversy? This week we\u2019re joined by Cecilia D\u2019anstasio in an attempt to answer all of these questions.\u00a0This week we\u2019re joined by Cecilia D\u2019Anstasio. Cecilia reports about video games at Bloomberg, and has written many important articles about the business and controversies of one of the biggest games in the world, Roblox. A few weeks ago we had Patrick Klepek on to discuss Roblox from a parent\u2019s perspective, but today we\u2019re going to hear about it from the perspective of a great investigative reporter and for my money the most knowledgeable journalists about Roblox.<\/p>\n

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