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Inside the Hunt for the Discord Leaker + Twitter Chaos Updates

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The Culture of a Server Like Thugshaker Central That Would Make Someone Want to Post Classified Military Documents

Eric Liu: The details of this are surprising to a lot of people just because it seems like such a mismatch. Usually when you have a leak of military intelligence, it's coming from someone with an axe to grind or a point to prove. And it just seems so strange that it emerged in this discord chat Thugshaker central where these gamers were hanging out trading insults and memes. Liu: So think of it as like a more intimate group chat, I guess you could say rather than like, you know, a discord server,. which makes it sound like it's a lot more official than it really was.

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