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Pentagon leaks: how Discord video game chat platform landed in the spotlight

Users explain the way top-secret documents were able slowly to spread across the internet unnoticed

The largest leak of classified Pentagon documents since Edward Snowden has placed a popular free chat platform for the video gaming community in the spotlight.

Discord began in 2015 as a chat app for gamers to discuss strategy in multi-player video games, but owing to its privacy features, it has morphed into a secure space to have secret discussions. This has inadvertently attracted users seeking to disseminate hate speech without being reported.

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Originally posted in the guardian.