Discord has introduced parental control tools, a move that represents a continued shift by the growing social media company to involve parents on its platform amid greater scrutiny of teen social media usage and its potentially negative health consequences.
But parents and public officials continue to pressure social media platforms over issues related to teen usage.
A Surgeon General's report from May of this year indicated that 46% of teens ages 13-17 say that social media makes them feel worse about their body image, and that there is a relationship between social media use and depression.
Discord's blog post about the new parental controls attempted to strike a balance between its user-first philosophy and the fact that many social media users are teens — the Surgeon General report said up to 95% of people between ages 13 and 17 report using social media.
Snap, Instagram, TikTok all have parental controlsParental controls like these are growing more common across social media.
Persons:
—, Snapchat, Meta
Organizations:
Wall Street Journal, Family