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The mother of a 15-year-old boy from California has filed a lawsuit against online gaming platforms Roblox and Discord, alleging that her son was groomed and coerced into sending explicit images on the apps before tragically taking his own life.

Evidence has emerged that Tyler Robinson, the alleged assassin of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, joked with friends on Discord that his “doppelganger” murdered Kirk.

Utah Gov. Spencer Cox indicated alleged assassin Tyler Robinson messaged his roommate on Discord about the “need to retrieve a rifle.”

Gaming giant Roblox has banned and threatened to sue a YouTuber known for confronting alleged predators on the online gaming platform. Roblox, massively popular with children and teens, has a troubled past filled with allegations of grooming and allowing predators to run rampant.

A sprawling online network with ties to U.S.-designated terrorist organizations is systematically spreading propaganda and manipulating public perception across major social media, information, and AI platforms, a Pirate Wires investigation has found. Leftist echo chamber Reddit is the key to the group’s manipulation strategy.

An ongoing investigation of the Harris campaign’s astroturf machine has exposed her team actively recruiting foreign volunteers, according to a report by the Federalist.

Republican FTC Commissioner Melissa Holyoak published a report on Thursday expressing concern with Big Tech facilitating content harmful to children, but also warning that in addressing such harmful online content, the Biden-Harris FTC could take actions that result in the censorship of Americans’ online speech.

Executives from TikTok, Meta, X (Twitter), Snap, and Discord will testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the exploitation of children online.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is set to testify before the US Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday to defend Facebook and Instagram’s impact on young users amid ongoing scrutiny of the tech giant’s social media platforms. Executives of Snapchat, TikTok, X/Twitter, and Discord will also testify.

Discord, the popular messaging and video calling platform, has announced a significant reduction in its workforce, laying off 17 percent of its staff in a strategic move to streamline operations.

The CEOs of Meta, X/Twitter, TikTok, Snapchat, and Discord are set to testify January 31 before the U.S. Senate “about their failure to protect children” on social media.

Following reports of child exploitation and grooming across the service, Discord, the widely-used gaming chat platform, has announced sweeping changes to its policies. The new rules include a ban on teen dating and AI-generated child sexual abuse material.

In the wake of growing concerns over child exploitation on the popular gaming chat platform Discord, CEO Jason Citron has voiced his alarm and commitment to tackling the issue. Discord has long been recognized as a troubling vector for groomers and sexual deviants to reach children and teens.

The Washington Post on Thursday said it was in possession of a purportedly classified document, among the many such items exposed by “Discord Leaker” Jack Teixeira, that captured Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) expressing his extreme frustration with the Biden administration and vowing “major economic consequences for Washington.”

The Washington Post on Sunday described classified U.S. intelligence documents included in the “Discord Leaks” – the trove of documents exposed by 21-year-old Massachusetts Air National Guard Airman Jack Teixeira to impress his friends on the Discord messaging platform – that said Iran concealed weapons in its humanitarian aid shipments to Syrian victims of the massive earthquakes in February.

Some of the purportedly classified documents obtained from the “Discord Leaks,” named after the messaging platform used to post them, indicated that China is secretly constructing a military base in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

The FBI arrested alleged Pentagon leaker Jack Douglas Teixeira on Thursday, closing the first chapter of an ongoing story that still has many questions to answer – including whether the classified documents Teixeira posted online are accurate or not and how he came to possess them.

Jalen Kitna, the 19-year-old son of former NFL player Jon Kitna, has played his last down for the Florida Gators. The school announced on Friday that they dismissed Kitna from the team after his arrest for sending child pornography over Discord back in June.

According to a recent report, tech giant Microsoft is in talks to acquire video-game chat community app Discord for more than $10 billion.

As share prices of GameStop stock soar, the popular trading Reddit forum WallStreetBets is facing increased scrutiny. Last night the messaging service Discord shut down the subreddit’s Discord server, a short while later the subreddit went private for some time.