A popular online messaging platform says it’s going out of its way to protect kids with new teen safety features. For a Gig Harbor teen whose family and law enforcement says was coerced into suicide ...

Users are reporting issues accessing Discord. According to downdetector.com, reports of issues starting pouring in just before 12:45 p.m. Eastern, on Monday, March 9. Around 1:10 p.m., nearly 23,000 ...

The parents of a 13-year-old Gig Harbor boy who died by suicide are suing Discord, alleging the platform enabled a violent online network that coerced their son into hanging himself, according to a ...

After constant pushback from its users, popular chat platform Discord is pulling back on plans to introduce a "global age assurance" process, admitting in a statement that the company "failed at our ...

After announcing its global mandatory age-verification rollout, Discord has distanced itself from leading third-party age-verification partner Persona following a wave of backlash from users based in ...

Discord is rolling out age verification globally starting next month, the company announced on Monday. All users will be put into a “teen-appropriate experience” by default. Only users verified as ...

Discord is facing backlash after announcing that all users will soon be required to verify ages to access adult content by sharing video selfies or uploading government IDs. According to Discord, it’s ...

Several families in Florida and across the country are taking legal action against the popular online gaming platform Roblox, alleging it has become a hunting ground for child sex predators and that ...

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A Galveston County mother has accused the owners of web-based game platform Roblox and messaging platform Discord of failing to protect her daughter from online predators. In a lawsuit filed in ...

SAN MATEO, California (Gray News) – A family in California is suing Roblox and Discord after they say the online platforms failed to protect their 10-year-old daughter from being abducted by a ...