UPDATE: As of 4 a.m. EDT Friday, Discord appears to have returned to normal, with no outage reports on Downdetector or fresh complaints on X. Several users took to social media and to the Downdetector ...

Facepalm: Microsoft's latest PR headache didn't come from Windows 11 updates or a Copilot feature rollout, but from a more unlikely source... its own Discord community. A temporary moderation rule in ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Discord, the popular platform for gamers to communicate online, is postponing its controversial age verification ...

Discord admits mistakes in its age verification approach and is postponing the rollout until the second half of 2026 after user backlash. PCWorld reports that Discord is cutting ties with ...

Discord, the popular online communication platform for gamers, said Wednesday it will delay its global age verification rollout after it received user criticism. Subscribe to read this story ad-free ...

Discord's global age verification rollout has been delayed to later this year after major criticism over privacy concerns. In a blog post, Discord co-founder and chief technology officer Stanislav ...

Discord no longer plans to roll out age verification globally in March and is delaying the launch until the second half of 2026, the company announced Tuesday. Discord had faced heavy backlash from ...

Update 2/24: This article was originally titled "Discord Drops Persona After Users Blast UK Age Checks And Data Practices". Per a statement we received from Discord after publishing, we've altered the ...

Both Reddit and Discord have got themselves into trouble over age verification – Reddit for failing to properly check ages, and Discord for using a controversial third-party service. Reddit has been ...

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, ...

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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 ...