The Times published a story about how the pentecon is looking into this leak. It mentioned that there were some posts on the messaging app Telegram. And so I was looking back and like, you know, there's no way this is the original source. So I looked them up and then somebody dn'd me of like, hey, I think I saw this on discord ... They pointed me to a Minecraft map server which where people make maps like of Earth,. Like they try to make like real life Earth on Minecraft. This guy had posted 10 on there. Of the seven that were posted on 4chan slash Telegram, those seven were from this cache of 10.
Aric Toler untangles the web of teens, gamers and memes at the heart of the latest intelligence scandal.
Then, an update on Twitter — where things have gone from bad to worse.
Plus: How A.I. is bringing us closer to “Westworld.”
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Aric Toler is the director of research and training at Bellingcat, the Dutch investigative site. He worked with journalists at The New York Times to identify the man who allegedly leaked top secret documents on Discord, a social media chat platform.
Twitter took steps to block Substack newsletters from circulating on the platform after Substack, a publishing start-up, started a Twitter-like service.