Discord's new age verification system faces scrutiny after hackers expose parts of its code, raising privacy and security concerns.

'269 individual verification checks', to be precise.

Discord is slowing down its new age verification update after it received numerous user complaints. Earlier this month, it ...

Discord cut ties with the Peter Thiel-backed verification software after researchers flagged publicly accessible files ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Persona, partially funded by Peter Thiel’s venture firm Founders Fund, continues to provide age verification services for OpenAI, ...

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 ...

If someone messages you on Discord saying they accidentally reported your account, you are being targeted by a Discord scam.

"We leverage an advanced machine learning model developed at Discord to predict whether a user falls into a particular age group based on patterns of user behavior and several other signals associated ...

Discord has cut ties with identity-verification company Persona — a startup backed by Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund — after ...

Discord has started a test in the UK and Australia to verify users’ ages using either face scans or identity documents. This new measure is designed to prevent minors from accessing sensitive content, ...

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Discord just bought itself more time. But users aren't waiting around. The company announced on 24 February that it would delay its global age verification rollout until the second half of 2026. The ...