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Stanislav Vishnevskiy, Discord co-founder and chief technology officer, writes that the bug<\/a> impacted around 200 users who posted \u201cgrid-like\u201d pictures, in addition to about 8,000 people who posted \u201cother benign images\u201d since May 2026. \u201cEveryone affected has now been unbanned,\u201d Vishnevskiy says.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In a thread on X<\/a>, Discord writes that its safety system is designed to flag content by \u201cmatching it against known harmful material.\u201d This system can produce \u201cfalse positives,\u201d Discord explains, which is when an employee would step in to review the flagged content. But instead of just temporarily preventing the account from uploading content during the review, a glitch led its system to ban users entirely.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cWhen our staff reviewed and cleared those accounts, the same bug prevented the ban from being lifted automatically, so it just stayed in place,\u201d Discord says.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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Stanislav Vishnevskiy, Discord co-founder and chief technology officer, writes that the bug impacted around 200 users who posted \u201cgrid-like\u201d pictures, in addition to about 8,000 people who posted \u201cother benign images\u201d since May 2026. \u201cEveryone affected has now been unbanned,\u201d Vishnevskiy says. 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