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Discord announced earlier this month that all users will soon be defaulted to teen experiences until their ages are verified. Soon after, the messaging platform faced backlash from users and privacy ...

After a rocky start, Discord has delayed the global rollout of its age-verification policies following user backlash. Earlier this month, the messaging-based social platform announced that it would ...

Earlier this month, Discord said it would be enacting an age verification policy. The platform faced some initial concerns from users about turning over their IDs and personal information, ...

Discord is pushing back plans to start verifying the age of all users in March after weeks of user ire. Stanislav Vishnevskiy, Discord's co-founder and chief technology officer, said a planned global ...

The messaging platform says its ‘limited test’ of Persona in the UK has come to an end. The messaging platform says its ‘limited test’ of Persona in the UK has come to an end. is a news writer who ...

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 ...