The state of New Jersey has filed suit against Discord claiming the company engaged in “deceptive and unconscionable business practices” that put children at risk. The suit was filed Thursday and ...

Discord encourages and facilitates free interaction and engagement between its users, and default settings allow users to receive friend requests from anyone on the app – and to receive private ...

The state’s complaint says Discord’s default settings allow users to receive friend requests from anyone on the app—and to receive private direct messages from friends and anyone using the ...

But the state said Discord’s default setting — “My friends are nice” — failed to scan messages from anyone designated as a “friend,” leaving a significant loophole in its protections.

New Jersey's Attorney General Matthew Platkin is suing Discord over the chat company's child safety features. The lawsuit claims that Discord has "misled parents about the efficacy of its safety ...

The New Jersey attorney general claims Discord’s features to keep children under 13 safe from sexual predators and harmful content are inadequate.

Discord’s users must be 13 or older ... From 2017 to 2023, the app’s default setting applied the feature only to messages between users who were not friends, prosecutors said.

Discord is a chat app that’s similar to programs ... Every Nitro user is granted two boosts by default (though you can always purchase more), which they can use on any server they are in.

The lawyers claim that Discord misrepresented the efficacy of that safety tool. "By default, direct messages between 'friends' were not scanned at all," the complaint stated. "But even when Safe ...