Florida attorney general sues Discord over child safety concerns

Another day, another lawsuit. This time, the state attorney general is suing Discord. Fox 35 streaming anchor Garrett Weimer is joining us live in the Alert Center now. So, Garrett, this is just the latest in a long list of social media platforms being sued by James Altmaier. Yeah, Snapchat, TikTok, ChatGPT, Roblox, Netflix. Those are just some of the digital platforms that James Altmaier has filed suit against. In his latest filing, he's accusing Discord of giving sexual predators access to children. Altmaier says time after time, the trail of sexual predators leads back to Discord. So he criticized the platform, saying they're not adequately verifying users' ages, they're not shielding minors from strangers, and they're definitely not keeping predators off the app, he says. You may remember one recent case out of Central Florida, actually, where a man from St. Cloud, now going to spend the rest of his life behind bars after posing as a 14-year-old boy on Discord and then contacting hundreds of children. just last month Discord announced some new teen safety features for the app that includes things like content filtering some other restrictions as well but Altmaier says that's too little too late Discord um you know was marketing itself as a a safe place all fun and games and indeed it became a playground for young people but unfortunately today it is a playground for some of the most evil heinous offenders for the most part anybody can sign up with an email address and putting in a birthday. And then you have old people going after kids. Discord does not properly engage in content moderation. Attorney General Altmaier has been busy fighting tech companies. He's also rejected the settlement Meta made with nearly every state over claims that Facebook and Instagram damaged kids' mental health. Meanwhile, eight more states have now announced lawsuits against OpenAI. That's the parent company of ChatGPT. Florida was the first to allege that ChatGPT coached its users, including the suspected FSU shooter, to harm either themselves or others. Live in the Alert Center, Garrett Weimer, Fox 35 News.