Discord, a social platform popular in the gaming community, announced Monday it is rolling out new age assurance technology that will require users to submit a video selfie or another form of identification to fully access the platform’s features.

Starting in early March, the platform will begin shifting all users to a “teen-appropriate experience” by default, with more restricted communications and content settings.

Users will need to submit a video selfie for facial age estimation or a form of identification to move out of this more limited experience. Discord said it is also implementing an age inference model to help determine adult accounts without user verification.

“Rolling out teen-by-default settings globally builds on Discord’s existing safety architecture, giving teens strong protections while allowing verified adults flexibility,” said Savannah Badalich, Discord’s head of product policy, in a statement.

“We design our products with teen safety principles at the core and will continue working with safety experts, policymakers, and Discord users to support meaningful, long term wellbeing for teens on the platform,” she added.

The default experience filters sensitive content, limits access to age-restricted spaces, routes messages from unknown users to a separate inbox and displays warnings for friend requests from unknown users.

Discord also said it is putting together a teen council, consisting of 10 to 12 teens to help “ensure Discord’s safety features are protective while balancing teen privacy and autonomy.”

The new features come as online platforms are increasingly under scrutiny for how they are protecting young users. Roblox announced in November that it was rolling out age checks to access chat features, while OpenAI said in January that it was bringing age prediction technology to ChatGPT to ensure teens are placed in a younger-than-18 experience.

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