Discord

Discord is a chat platform and digital distribution service that allows users to communicate via voice, video, and text in private or public communities called servers.

Why it’s in the news: It is in the news now for being ordered by a Brazilian watchdog to suspend its livestreaming feature over child safety failures.

Latest on Discord

• Discord halts livestreams in Brazil after watchdog cites child safety failures
• Brazil agency orders Discord chat platform to suspend livestreaming over child safety concerns
• Discord ordered to suspend livestreams in Brazil
• Discord and Meta are being sued as defective products, not as publishers
• Discord accidentally banned over 8,000 people for posting grids and other ‘benign’ images
• Discord admits AI moderation bug wrongfully banned users over harmless images
• the issue had been affecting accounts since May, with an additional 200 users banned over the weekend
• forcing changes at X, Discord, and more

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