Discord will soon require users worldwide to verify their age with a face scan or ID to access adult content, the company announced. The new safety measures, designed to protect users, will roll out globally from early March, according to BBC Technology.
The online chat service, which boasts over 200 million monthly users, already implements age verification in the UK and Australia to comply with online safety laws. The platform aims to place all users into a "teen-appropriate experience" by default.
In other news, a study from the University of Oxford revealed that AI chatbots give inaccurate and inconsistent medical advice, potentially posing risks to users. Researchers found that people using AI for healthcare advice received a mix of good and bad responses, making it difficult to discern trustworthy information, according to BBC Technology. Dr. Rebecca Payne, lead medical practitioner on the study, stated it could be "dangerous" for people to ask chatbots about their symptoms.
Meanwhile, the US Department of Justice released roughly 3.5 million redacted documents related to criminal investigations of Jeffrey Epstein. A United States congressman, Democratic Representative Ro Khanna, revealed the names of six men whose identities were blacked out in the files, including American billionaire Leslie Wexner, who appears to have been labelled a coconspirator by the FBI in 2019, as reported by Al Jazeera.
In a separate development, an Irishman, Seamus Culleton, is reportedly fearing for his life after a Trump-era ICE crackdown turned his American dream into a nightmare. Culleton, who was married to an American and had a work permit, is currently detained in a Texas detention center, according to Sky News. His wife, Tiffany Smyth, shared photographs illustrating their life together before his detention.
Finally, TikTok launched a new Local Feed in the U.S. version of the app, displaying content related to travel, news, events, shopping, and dining near the user's current location. The app will begin collecting precise location information from users to power the Local Feed, but users can control whether or not precise location sharing is on, and the default will be set to off, according to TechCrunch. The Local Feed had previously rolled out in December to select European markets.
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