Discord has a new problem: revenge porn
The chat platform Discord has struggled with abuse, racism, and intolerance on its service, but its problems are far from over — and now include revenge porn. In a report published today, The Daily Beast details how it discovered “hundreds of [explicit] images, almost all of women,” pulled from social media or of sexual imagery being shared without consent across the platform maliciously.
According to The Daily Beast, the images, videos, and chat logs available on Discord encompass a disturbing range, from rooms dedicated to specific women to sections that only allow “real rape, real daterape, real drugged chicks for rape, videos of real rape, real forced girlfriend, Abused girlfriends.”
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