Teens Are Running Illicit Dating Channels on Discord

Faced with lax moderation, teens are building ad hoc tools to protect their own dating servers

Luke Winkie
OneZero
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6 min readNov 4, 2019

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Illustration: Kelsey Niziolek

OOriginally pitched as a sort of “Slack for gamers,” over the last four years Discord has attracted more than 250 million users and evolved into a catch-all chat platform that lets people debate politics, share music…

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Luke Winkie
OneZero
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