Raise your hand if, when secret US military documents leaked in a Discord server full of gamers, you thought: 'Yeah, that sounds about right.'
, the documents included US intel on the war in Ukraine, details about US efforts to spy on allies, and more. Newspapers are now racing to report every detail of this major event and its global consequences, and the Massachusetts Air National Guard member suspected of posting the documents to his Discord server faces a possible 15 years in prison.
It's all very serious, but I still couldn't help but laugh yesterday when I saw"FBI Arrests Leader of Online Group Where Secrets Appeared" on the front page ofThat's not to say that the Times 'doesn't get Discord'—the mainstream reporting I've seen has been quite good at contextualizing the gaming connection for a wide audience.
Sounds about right to us, though, doesn't it? This isn't the first time that Discord, the application people use to talk to their Minecraft friends, has played a lead role in events with global consequences. During the meme investing spree that took down GameStop shorters, Discord briefly for"hate speech," and prior to that, reports of white supremacist groups organizing in Discord servers led the company to collaborate with the Southern Poverty Law Center in its efforts to remove them. In South Korea, 2020's shocking
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