Pentagon leak appears to have been initially shared on the video game chat platform Discord

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8. "Video game chat platform" - LOL

Discord is just a social chat platform.

Yes, there's a lot of gamers on it. Also regular streamers, influencers, YouTube content creators, etc. etc. Pretty much anyone on the internet you can think of. I'm on several Discord servers for school (study groups, etc).

"Bizarre provenance" Yes. A social media platform with nearly a quarter of a billion users is such an out of the way place to find things! Truly the back of beyond. Next week: hard-hitting expose' on that little known website - Reddit.

New rule: Anyone writing an article involving the Internet has to actually know how the Internet is used.