Discord’s age verification era is upon us, despite community backlash

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Starting Wednesday, Discord, the community messaging platform, will roll out age verification measures to all users. He explains that Discord will instead use existing account data to detect “signals,” like account tenure (how long an account has existed), device and activity data, and other usage patterns, to determine whether a user belongs in the adult, teen, or unconfirmed age group. Because local laws have required Discord to use age assurance technology in certain regions due to local law, the company was able to train its model on reliably confirmed data linking user behavior to age.

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