Discord was something of a haven for white supremacists and alt-right troublemakers in the past, and they still use it now, but as it's grown into this massive, mainstream platform it's faced more scrutiny and started to clean up its act. It's also been deleting servers that are being used to disrupt peaceful protests. Discord says that's because it goes out and looks for exploitative content to remove, which includes servers involved in child exploitation and non-consensual pornography. Exploitative content is the next highest reason for bans, despite making up only up eight percent of complaints. Spam, meanwhile, appears to be the most actionable issue, with Spammers have also been banned more than anyone else, with 4, spam account banned between January and June-so most of them have been given the boot without users sending reports.
Discord has released a new transparency report that details the complaints regarding and action taken against spammers, harassers, servers that break community guidelines and criminal activity over the first six months of Not surprisingly, this year has seen a spike thanks to so many people stuck at home, leading to the company receiving double the number of reports that it got in the second half of The latter is the largest category, making up 86, of the reports, but according to Discord it's also the hardest one to take action against.
