Discord Inc. — Ethics Grade D

Discord Inc. receives an overall ethics grade of D (32/100) on CancelCo's corporate accountability database. Sector: Social Media. Market cap: Large Cap.

Category scores

• labor: 60
• privacy: 25
• consumer: 20
• environment: 80
• humanRights: 15

Documented incidents (3)

• Child Grooming and Safety Failures (high, 2023) — Investigations by NBC News highlighted that Discord's decentralized server model was being exploited by predators, with insufficient moderation tools to protect minors.
• Hosting Extremist Communities (high, 2022) — The platform was criticized for serving as a communication hub for white supremacist groups involved in coordinating violent events, despite policy prohibitions.
• User Data Scraping Vulnerabilities (medium, 2021) — Third-party services were found to be scraping and selling millions of user chat logs, exposing private conversations due to lax API security measures.

Documented good deeds

• Family Center Launch — Introduced new parental oversight tools that allow parents to see who their teens are talking to without compromising message privacy.

Ethical alternatives

• Signal — Non-profit structure with end-to-end encryption by default.