Brazil sues chat platform Discord over failure to protect child users

The lawsuit is the latest instance of Brazil taking aggressive steps to rein in tech giants over child safety issues online.Published On 27 Aug 202627 Aug 2026The Brazilian government has filed a lawsuit against the chat platform Discord, seeking millions of dollars in damages over alleged failures to protect children and teenage social media users.The $97m lawsuit, filed on Wednesday, comes after what the Brazilian government describes as failed negotiations with the company.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemslist 1 of 3Brazil fines TikTok $30m for child data privacy violationslist 2 of 3Meta agrees to settlement, platform changes in youth addiction caselist 3 of 3TikTok settles with US Justice Department for $400m over child privacy lawsend of listThe complaint argues that Discord failed to abide by laws designed to protect young social media users.“The lawsuit seeks to compel the Discord platform to adopt effective measures to protect children, adolescents, and women in the digital environment,” the government said in a statement, calling for compensation for “collective moral damages”.The company, however, has pushed back, saying the lawsuit is excessively harsh and does not ac...