Discord Severs Ties with Age Verification Firm Over Palantir and Epstein Connections
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Summary
Discord is distancing itself from a third-party age verification company after discovering its ties to Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel and potential connections to Jeffrey Epstein. This comes as Discord struggles to comply with the UK's Online Safety Act, which requires platforms to implement age verification to protect minors from harmful content. Discord's current system has security vulnerabilities, including a breach that exposed 70,000 users' IDs, and the company faces criticism for considering a verification provider with surveillance concerns and controversial investor connections.
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At the top of those stumbling to do so was Discord, whose system is not only easy to game but also not impossible to compromise, with one major security breach exposing some 70,000 users' IDs shortly after.
The third-party company Discord could use for their ID collection is mired in surveillance concerns and links to Epstein via one of its investors.
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