WAMU - Apr 6 - Discord removed ~2k communities dedicated to extremism and other violent content in the second half of last year. Of the 2,212 extremist and violent communities taken down from its platform, ~1.5k were first detected by the company. Overall, Discord shut down ~30k communities across the site for various types of abuse. The most often cited violations were for cybercrimes and exploitative content, which includes revenge porn and sexually explicit content involving minors.