Meme Group on Discord Is Focus of Uproar Over Leaked Pentagon Documents

But that the leaked documents had surfaced there, he said, was “hilarious.”

“It was just spread onto the nicheiest, nerdiest parts of the internet,” he said. “That’s the kind of people who would find these documents — losers. That’s who the U.S. government really has to fear.”

Young, tech-savvy people often have less respect for government, wow_mao said, “and they’ll always find it funny to mock them and cut under them in some sort of way.”

In early March, a user on the wow_mao server named Lucca uploaded page after page of the classified information, according to screenshots shared by users who had investigated the leak. The origins of the documents were reported earlier by Bellingcat.

The documents gained wider attention after they were posted two days later in a server dedicated to Minecraft, where one user appeared to share them during an argument.

“Here, have some leaked documents,” the user said, before uploading some of them.

“Nice,” another user replied.

Article source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/11/business/discord-leaked-military-documents.html