Social VR pushes moderation challenges to the surface in ways that non-VR titles are often able to avoid. Voice, immersion, and highly social design raise the stakes while economic realities also create limitations around moderation coverage. The good news is that data-backed approaches show there is another path. Guest Article by Dr. George Ng George is a co-founder and CTO of GGWP , where he works on systems that help online communities understand their users, reduce toxicity and churn, and work as a partner to support live operations teams. Previously, he co-founded Cyence, a cyber risk assessment platform. Cyence was acquired by Guidewire Software, where he served as chief data officer. Dr. Ng was the chief data scientist at Cray Supercomputer and a research scientist at DARPA. Ng has taught machine learning at UC Berkeley, game theory at American University, and economics at UC Irvine. The challenges of moderation in social VR are structurally different from traditional flatscreen gaming.…