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Pentagon leaks: How social platform Discord found itself in the spotlight

How top-secret documents were able slowly to spread across the internet unnoticed.

A twenty-one-year-old US National Guardsman Jack Teixeira has appeared in court in Boston accused of leaking highly-sensitive military intelligence. He鈥檚 said to have distributed very damaging intelligence on everything from Ukraine's war plans to Washington spying on its allies like South Korea. But there's one part of this that is especially interesting - it was all initially distributed on Discord, a social media platform, popular with gamers.

(Picture: Discord App In Talks With Microsoft For USD 10 Billion Sale. Picture Credit: Getty Images)

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