Deviation has introduced new safety features aimed at helping parents stay informed about their teen’s activity, the chat app announced Wednesday.
The Discord Family Center will now give parents or guardians the ability to view the top five users who have been new and called new messages, their complete phone messages with voice and video, and all the purchases they have made.
However, this history only goes back to the last week. If a parent forgets to check their child’s work during a given week, tracking starts. To review past work, the parent will need to get past email summaries sent to the inbox.
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Additional new security features include the ability of young people to notify their parents when they report to object or eliminate objectionable content in consent, as well as sensitive content filtering and sensitive message control. Now parents will be able to choose whether their child can receive DMS from friends or other serva members.
Savannah Babalich, Discord’s head of Product Policy, told mashable that the security features reflect feedback from parents directly and with the help of the company’s associations with us and the Digital Reference Associas lab.
“They wanted more visibility and more control,” Babalich said.
New features will release next week. Babalich added that tensions will introduce more security measures next year. The company currently operates a one-year warranty in the United Kingdom and is trialling it in Australia. According to Discoord’s policy, only end users are allowed to join, but teenagers often circumvent this rule by lying about their age.
Now parents will see this list of top users in the family centers controls.
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Top purchases will be viewed by parents through the family center.
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Discord is very popular among players who use it to chat simultaneously and play with friends and strangers. The app has been developed and scrutinized as a platform where male and female sex players target and communicate with young users.
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Haley McNanamara, Senior Director and Chief Executive Officer of the National Sexual Exploitation Authority, told Mashable in a statement that Discord’s new Fasts Fall security.
“Once again, a tech platform with a history of harming children is rolling out parental controls that only put the burden on parents excessively, without taking ownership of making the platform safer,” McNamara said. The Advocacy Organization has previously placed the feud on its annual “dirty” list, describing it as a ‘common culprit in sexual exploitation. ”
The case was filed this year against the record and the reablox platform, which is alleged to have created a “breeding ground for female prostitutes.” At the heart of the complaint is an unidentified 11-year-old girl who is alleged to have been sexually groomed, sexually exploited, and raped by an abuser who used roblox and has failed to communicate with her.
The Dolman Law Group, which brought the suit against both companies, named revord as a multiple complaint, including an Oct. 30
“For years, the defendants have misrepresented and intentionally concealed information about the pervasive behavior that their programs enable and operate,” the law contends.
Roblox recently introduced youth age verification, along with other security measures aimed at making it more difficult for deer to target children.
While Babalich did not refer to the lawsuits against the disagreement, he told mashable that it is a “total security idea” for the safety of young people, noting that the company identifies with jokes and accounts that can put users at risk. Discord’s policy also prohibits child-driven or child-generated media that depicts child sexual abuse.
Babalich created that because discord is a communication platform that works the tension between giving young users privacy who want to be sure to ensure their safety.
Ultimately, what we want is to spark conversations between youth and parents, “said Babalich. Both parents and youth can find guidelines at the family center to help with conversations about safety online.
Update: Nov. 5, 2025, 11:05 AM PST This article has been updated to include independent expertise in online youth safety.
