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 ...

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, ...

Discord’s upcoming age-verification policy appears to be causing a surge in new users to Matrix, an open-source alternative. On Thursday, the messaging protocol’s co-founder, Matthew Hodgson, reported ...

PCWorld reports that Discord’s new age verification policy requires users to submit video selfies or ID documents, treating unverified accounts as teens. Searches for “delete Discord” have doubled ...

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 ...

TeamSpeak, a rival to the popular chat platform Discord used by gamers, has seen a surge of new users since Discord announced it would be requiring age verification for some users, causing TeamSpeak’s ...