Discord blocked more than 55 million accounts for protecting minors and spreading false information

Discord blocked more than 55 million user accounts and eliminated almost 70,000 servers in the first half of the year 2022, that is, from the month of January to last June.

The company has recently published its latest transparency report, an analysis that it began to carry out in January 2019 and in which it shares data from actions taken on accounts and servers involved in the spread of false information on the platform.

Usually, Discord prepares these reports in two deliveries a year, which refer to two groups of months of the same year, which are not always the same. In 2022, it has produced a report that corresponds to the months of January to March and, the following, from April to June.

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These reports detail the number of accounts that have been disabled for various reasons. Among them, for being spam profiles, accounts that violate the platform’s community policies or that present unsolicited and illegal content.

According to its latest report, between April and June of this year disabled a total of 767,363 accounts for exceeding its regulations, not including spam. This represents a decrease of 27 percent compared to the 1,054,358 accounts disabled in the previous quarter.

On the contrary, with respect to accounts deactivated due to spam, the platform indicates that in the period studied another 27,733,948 accounts were deactivatedthat is, 6.5 percent more than in the previous quarter, in which 26,017,742 accounts were deactivated.

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This determines that in the months included between January and June 2022 a total of 55,573,418 Discord accounts were disabledto which is added the disconnection and removal of servers from this service.

In total, 28,370 servers were removed between April and June 2022, down 29 percent from the 40,009 servers removed during the previous quarter. Therefore, Between January and June 2022, 68,379 servers were removed.

Discord has also commented on the nature of the accounts that were disabled in the second quarter studied and has indicated that the majority were blocked to protect children from harmful content (532,498 of them), as well as for unsolicited content (147,249), illegal or irregular activities (27,494), violence and graphic content (15,630) or extreme violence (12,531).

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On the other hand, 270 of them were deleted for spreading false information, 13,779 for harassment and intimidation or 5,719 for hateful conduct. Additionally, 2,495 of the accounts were deleted for promoting suicide or self-harm.

Source: Elcomercio

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