Analysis: The leak of classified documents via U.S.-based app Discord is a reminder that social media is hard to control.
is accused of uploading tranches of classified documents to a private chat group on the social app Discord, mostly just because he could. Reporting indicates that one member of his private chat then uploaded some of the documents to a much larger Discord group, and they gradually spread from there — ultimately making their way onto Twitter and into public view.
“The general tenor of the conversation at the national level has focused our attention on TikTok as if the American people are supposed to galvanize to protect ourselves” by deleting a Chinese-owned short-video app, he said. “Why aren’t we being taught how to protect ourselves from ransomware? Why isn’t there a national campaign to prevent phishing efforts? The Russian [Internet Research Agency] showed they did not have to own Facebook to own Facebook.
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