After mounting pressure and a potential user exodus, Discord's CTO has delayed the chat app's age verification plans to later ...

Discord’s original plan was to begin age verification as early as March, but in light of the controversy, the company is now postponing the rollout of age verification to the second half of 2026, per ...

The company added that 90% of users won’t need to verify their age and will be able to keep using Discord as usual.

Both Reddit and Discord have got themselves into trouble over the use of a controversial third-party age verification service.

Discord, which says it has more than 200 million active users, will continue to meet specific legal obligations it has for age verification of users, the company said, but the global expansion of age ...

Discord delays global age verification rollout after backlash, promising more options, transparency, and a revised launch later in 2026. The post Discord admits it rushed age checks and is rethinking ...