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Africa-Press – Angola. <\/strong><\/span>The tech industry\u2019s disappointing track record on issues of diversity could have serious consequences when the metaverse comes along.<\/b><\/p>\n

For years, tens of millions of people of color have endured unwelcome experiences on social media platforms built by mostly white and male tech CEOS, including harassment and hate speech. Many users have also had their contributions regularly ignored or copied without attribution.<\/p>\n

If those issues follow users into the metaverse, a concept championed largely by those same mostly white and male tech CEOs, today\u2019s online abuse could become significantly more visceral and damaging.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you don\u2019t have people at the table who have historically suffered harms or abuses, or who have to live with certain things in the back of their mind, then you don\u2019t build platforms in a way that protects those people,\u201d says Jeff Nelson, the co-founder and chief technology officer of Blavity, an online media company geared toward Black millennial creators. \u201cYou build platforms that can be used by people who want to extend harm to others, [and can] do so at scale.\u201d<\/p>\n

The tech industry has spent a decade publicly reckoning with its diversity problem. Still, Black and Hispanic workers hold just 7% and 8% of computer worker roles in the U.S., though they represent 11% and 17% of the country\u2019s total workforce, respectively, according to the Pew Research Center.<\/p>\n

If the companies building the metaverse are lacking in diverse voices, Nelson says, it\u2019ll be hard to avoid the same problems experienced by today\u2019s social media users \u2014 including more than 80 million Americans of color, according to a CNBC Make It analysis of Pew data.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we make the same mistakes that we did with social networking and web 2.0 \u2026 then we\u2019ll just bring that problem into this new space,\u201d Nelson says. \u201cSo it absolutely is a problem.\u201d<\/p>\n

Users of virtual worlds already encounter harassment, bigotry<\/p>\n

The metaverse isn\u2019t off to a great start. Studies of virtual world gaming platforms, like VRChat, have found evidence of minors being regularly exposed to racist, violent language and harassment in the virtual worlds. Those types of experiences can be full-on assaults to users\u2019 mental health, psychologists say.<\/p>\n

To Nelson, it\u2019s an extension of the existing issues that people of color have faced for years on social media \u2014 and a sign that metaverse platforms aren\u2019t ready for the types of abuse that their users can throw at each other.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s attempting to force change with Blavity. Each year, his company runs a conference called AfroTech, which helps \u201cbring mass awareness about Black people in tech and entrepreneurship and professional development,\u201d Nelson says.<\/p>\n

When Covid hit, AfroTech went virtual \u2014 resulting in what Nelson calls the \u201cfirst-ever Black metaverse.\u201d That\u2019s more than just branding, he adds: The more Black people put their stamp on the metaverse today, the more the developers building those future platforms will know that they need to intentionally create more welcoming virtual spaces.<\/p>\n

\u201cCreating worlds within the metaverse, creating content, creating art, all those things are efforts that are important to us as we think about the metaverse and making sure that Black people are fairly represented in this future,\u201d Nelson says.<\/p>\n

How tech giants like Meta are responding<\/p>\n

There\u2019s evidence that some tech giants are listening \u2014 or, at least, saying they are.<\/p>\n

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg almost single-handedly turned \u201cmetaverse\u201d into the tech world\u2019s buzziest concept over the past year. His company has also faced criticism for suppressing the accounts and content of Black creators in the past, leading Instagram and Facebook to take steps over the past year to better support and promote Black creators on the Meta-owned platforms.<\/p>\n

Facebook has committed to spending $1 billion each year with \u201cdiverse suppliers,\u201d including $100 million annually with Black-owned businesses. And Meta says it\u2019s keeping diversity in mind as it builds its own version of the metaverse.<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause companies like Meta are starting to think about this future now, we have the opportunity to help build the metaverse with diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) from its inception,\u201d Maxine Williams, Meta\u2019s chief diversity officer, wrote in a blog post in February.<\/p>\n

Online gaming company Roblox, another firm that\u2019s betting big on the metaverse, regularly promotes its creators of color. According to Julian Walshaw-Vaughan, a vice president of engineering at Roblox and recipient of a Blacks in Gaming award last year, the company\u2019s business model depends on it.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur hope is: If we can provide a platform for anyone in the world to learn important skills as developers and engineers alongside an opportunity to express themselves creatively and easily publish content, this will have an impact on the technology industry at large and result in more diverse and representative shared experiences,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

Those types of statements are positive signs for a more inclusive metaverse future. But for Nelson, seeing is believing.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrankly, I haven\u2019t seen enough,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

The metaverse could be \u2018a perfect opportunity to do better\u2019<\/p>\n

Nelson says easiest way for tech companies to begin making a difference is obvious: Hiring.<\/p>\n

Currently, he says, tech companies often boost diversity in their workplaces by hiring people of color from the same places they get most of their employees: Stanford or the Ivy Leagues. Meta\u2019s Williams, for example, attended Yale University, according to her LinkedIn profile.<\/p>\n

\u2033[That\u2019s] paying lip service to diversity,\u201d Nelson says. \u201cCompanies are not bringing in people that will challenge culture. They\u2019re bringing in people who will sort of assimilate or fit their preconceived notion of how they should operate.\u201d<\/p>\n

That sort of change might need to happen quickly, as companies like Meta, Apple, Roblox and Microsoft forge ahead to build the web\u2019s next iteration \u2014 even as the metaverse itself could take years, if not decades, to become mainstream reality.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe metaverse is a perfect opportunity to do better,\u201d Nelson says. \u201cI am confident, because it\u2019s so early and we\u2019re having these conversations [now] \u2014 instead of us having this conversation five years from now, and it\u2019s about, \u2018The metaverse isn\u2019t welcoming. How can we fix this?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

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