Discord sued by New Jersey over child safety features

The New Jersey attorney general sued Discord on Thursday, alleging that the company misled consumers about child safety features on the gaming-centric social messaging app. The lawsuit, filed in the New Jersey Superior Court by attorney General Matthew Platkin and the state's division of consumer affairs, alleges that Discord violated the state's consumer fraud laws. Discord did so, the complaint said, by allegedly "misleading children and parents from New Jersey" about safety features, "obscuring" the risks children face on the platform and failing to enforce its minimum age requirement. "Discord's strategy of employing difficult to navigate and ambiguous safety settings to lull parents and children into a false sense of safety, when Discord knew well that children on the Application were being targeted and exploited, are unconscionable and/or abusive commercial acts or practices," lawyers wrote in the legal filing. They alleged that Discord's acts and practices were "offensive to ... Read full article.