Discord has been busy performing damage control in response to the backlash it received after announcing a global rollout of age verification measures. You know, the same measures with ties to a ...

Social community platform Discord is preparing to require users to verify their age by the second half of 2026, and users are concerned about the privacy of uploading a government ID or face scan to ...

Unsurprisingly, Discord's "teen-by-default" settings and ID verification announcement isn't going over well with its user base. On Monday, the messaging platform announced it will require all adult ...

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When Discord announced on Feb. 9 that it would soon introduce mandatory age verification for all users, there was immediate, bombastic pushback from the community. But it's happening regardless, ...