Starting Wednesday, Discord, the community messaging platform, will roll out age verification measures to all users. The rollout comes after the company initially delayed its age verification plans in February due to backlash from users concerned that biometric scans and ID checks could jeopardize their privacy. Those concerns weren’t unfounded; last year, a third-party vendor
Discord has acknowledged that a bug in its AI moderation system mistakenly banned more than 8,000 users in the past two months, after harmless images (including spreadsheets, chess boards, game textures, as well as white and gray transparent backgrounds) were incorrectly flagged as harmful content. The company confirmed that the issue had been affecting accounts
