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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...