{"id":197130,"date":"2026-03-19T00:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T00:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/197130\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T00:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T00:08:08","slug":"uthmeier-to-investigate-messaging-platform-discord-tallahassee-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/197130\/","title":{"rendered":"Uthmeier To Investigate Messaging Platform Discord \u2013 Tallahassee Reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftallahasseereports.com%2F2026%2F03%2F18%2Futhmeier-to-investigate-messaging-platform-discord%2F\" style=\"display:inline-block;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sfsi_wicon\" data-pin-nopin=\"true\" width=\"auto\" height=\"auto\" alt=\"fb-share-icon\" title=\"Facebook Share\" src=\"https:\/\/tallahasseereports.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/ultimate-social-media-plus\/images\/share_icons\/fb_icons\/en_US.svg\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Uthmeier+To+Investigate+Messaging+Platform+Discord https:\/\/tallahasseereports.com\/2026\/03\/18\/uthmeier-to-investigate-messaging-platform-discord\/\" style=\"display:inline-block\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" nopin=\"nopin\" width=\"auto\" class=\"sfsi_plus_wicon\" src=\"https:\/\/tallahasseereports.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/ultimate-social-media-plus\/images\/share_icons\/Twitter_Tweet\/en_US_Tweet.svg\" alt=\"Tweet\" title=\"Tweet\"\/>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>By The News Service of Florida<\/p>\n<p>Attorney General James Uthmeier said Wednesday his office will investigate Discord, a messaging platform, for allegedly putting children at risk of being groomed by predators online.<\/p>\n<p>The office issued a subpoena\u00a0for information relating to the marketing of children,\u00a0enforcing age-verification requirements, content moderation, parental control features and reporting of exploitative activity, according to the press release.<\/p>\n<p>In December, Uthmeier\u2019s office sued Roblox, a popular online game, alleging the company \u201cdeceived parents about the safety of its platform while failing to protect children from accessing graphic adult content and being contacted and groomed by predators.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere have been many concerning reports indicating that predators initially contact minors on other platforms, including video games like Roblox and Fortnite, and then encourage them to move communications to Discord, which may be due to insufficient protections for children,\u201d the press release states.<\/p>\n<p>Discord is one of the most\u00a0popular chat applications, where users can communicate by text, audio and video and send files within the platform.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith so many criminal investigations leading to Discord, they owe us an explanation as to why predators keep getting to kids on the app,\u201d Uthmeier stated in a post on X.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftallahasseereports.com%2F2026%2F03%2F18%2Futhmeier-to-investigate-messaging-platform-discord%2F\" style=\"display:inline-block;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sfsi_wicon\" data-pin-nopin=\"true\" width=\"auto\" height=\"auto\" alt=\"fb-share-icon\" title=\"Facebook Share\" src=\"https:\/\/tallahasseereports.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/ultimate-social-media-plus\/images\/share_icons\/fb_icons\/en_US.svg\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Uthmeier+To+Investigate+Messaging+Platform+Discord https:\/\/tallahasseereports.com\/2026\/03\/18\/uthmeier-to-investigate-messaging-platform-discord\/\" style=\"display:inline-block\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" nopin=\"nopin\" width=\"auto\" class=\"sfsi_plus_wicon\" src=\"https:\/\/tallahasseereports.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/ultimate-social-media-plus\/images\/share_icons\/Twitter_Tweet\/en_US_Tweet.svg\" alt=\"Tweet\" title=\"Tweet\"\/>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; 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