EXCLUSIVE: NBC News has identified over 165 cases, including four crime rings, in which adults were prosecuted for transmitting or receiving child sexual abuse material via Discord.
, according to police, after she was groomed on Discord for months. In another, a 22-year-old man kidnapped a 12-year-old after meeting her in a video game and grooming her on Discord, according to prosecutors.
When Discord responds and cooperates with tiplines and law enforcement, groups say the information is usually of high quality, including messages, account names and IP addresses. The company said in a transparency report that the acquisition “will allow us to expand our ability to detect and remove bad content.”Redgrave said that whenever the company deploys moderation efforts against CSAM, though, it tries to cast a wide net and search the platform as expansively as possible.
As the platform has grown, the problems it’s faced with child exploitation appear to have grown, too. “They will often set up an individual server that really has no moderation at all to connect with a youth individual,” Sauer said. On dark web forums used by child predators, users share tips about how to effectively deceive children on Discord. “Try discord play the role of a generic edgy 15 year old and join servers,” one person wrote in a chat seen by NBC News. “I got 400 videos and 1000+ pictures.”
Redgrave said Discord is working with Thorn, a well-known developer of anti-child-exploitation technology, on models that can potentially detect grooming behavior. A Thorn representative described the project as potentially helping “any platform with an upload button to detect, review, and report CSAM and other forms of child sexual abuse on the internet.
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