BRASILIA, Brazil, Aug. 27 (UPI) — The Brazilian government has sued Discord for $97 million after failed negotiations over bringing the platform’s features into compliance with Brazilian regulations.

Discord is an instant‑messaging and VoIP social platform in which users communicate through text, voice, video and shared media in private or community servers.

Brazil’s Office of the Attorney General, known by its Portuguese acronym AGU, filed the civil lawsuit Tuesday after it said it identified serious failures in protections for minors and age verification on the platform.

The case gained prominence in July after the suicide of a 13-year-old girl linked to livestreams on the app, O Globo reported.

Police described the incident as a “true horror show” and arrested six people, including five teenagers.

“This platform has allowed illegal behavior because of what we call insufficient protection for women, children, adolescents and animals,” Attorney General Jorge Messias said Wednesday. He added that the government took action at the request of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Veja reported.

The amount sought corresponds to $9.7 million for each of 10 violations that the government said it identified, documented and included in the lawsuit.

The alleged violations include failures in age verification, the lack of mechanisms linking children and adolescents to their legal guardians and failures to report cases to authorities.

Brazilian authorities said they spent two weeks negotiating an agreement with Discord in good faith. They ultimately deemed the proposals presented by the platform insufficient.

In a statement, Discord said the lawsuit was disproportionate and “does not accurately reflect Discord’s approach to safety,” Folha de S.Paulo reported.

Separately, Brazil’s National Data Protection Authority fined TikTok nearly $30 million for violations of the country’s Digital Child and Adolescent Statute.

Brazilian authorities said the penalties are intended to send a unified message that they will not tolerate regulatory gaps in content moderation.