Leaked top-secret document Deleted through chat room server Discord Continued distribution of damage

It seems that leaked documents from the US Department of Defense were leaked to the chat room server “Discord” and continued to circulate in the blind spot of deletion measures.
The US media pointed out that the disseminated image is not hacking because it looks like a picture of a document, and it is more difficult to delete it from the internet distribution network.
“This document may fall into a gray area that, at least in the past, would have led to discussions among compliance officers within companies about whether or not they were entitled to takedowns,” the New York Times wrote. “Discord has skyrocketed in popularity during the pandemic. It has surpassed its roots in video games and prospered rapidly in the pandemic by providing a so-called server, a chat room, where you can discuss hobbies, send messages to each other, or participate in voice calls, but problems with harmful content also arose.”
Discord decides whether or not users follow the platform's policies and post inappropriate or questionable material is entirely up to the individuals who create the servers, some of which operate on behalf of members of the server community to help enforce the rules, so some of the groups are private in nature. can easily evade detection or manipulation, the NYT said.
In 2017, when white nationalists organized a 'Unite the Right' rally on far-right servers in Charlottesville, Va., company executives were aware that white nationalists were using the platform, but did not remove them until after the rally. .
Discord later announced a policy to strengthen the 'content moderation team', and the company's CEO, Jason Citron, said in an interview in 2021 that "15% of employees worked in the trust and safety team."
In the case of a gunman who killed 10 people at a grocery store in Buffalo, southern New York on May 14 last year, when Discord was in trouble again, management failed to find a Discord message on a private server posted by the shooter.
The shooter posted racist remarks in a Discord message and detailed how he planned to carry out the attack.
Discord reported that after the shooting, a U.S. official said the shooter "live-streamed the attack on Twitch, an Amazon-owned live-streaming site popular with gamers."
Twitz said that it took the channel offline within two minutes of the violence started at the time, and the channel page was marked as "currently unavailable due to violation of Twitch's community guidelines or terms of service," the NYT reported on May 14 last year. did.
A Twitch spokesperson said in a statement that the site "has a zero-tolerance policy for violence of any kind and is committed to responding quickly to any incidents. Users have been suspended from our service indefinitely, and any accounts rerunning this content are being monitored. We are taking all appropriate measures, including
Discord said in a statement at the time, "We are investigating posts made on private servers and are cooperating with law enforcement officials, but will not comment further." that,” he said.
The NYT pointed out that Discord "has taken steps to improve its content moderation in recent years, but it still relies heavily on user reports, especially private servers that are invite-only and less visible from the outside."
"A lot of the documents were in American hands, so the focus now is that this is a US leak," former senior Pentagon official Michael Mulroy told Reuters on the 9th.
"US officials say the breadth of subject matter covered in documents dealing with wars in Ukraine, China, the Middle East and Africa suggests they may have been leaked by Americans rather than allies," Reuters reported.
Discord started in 2015 when computer programmer Jason Citron switched from a video game business to a chat feature in games.
Discord was popular with gamers in its early days, but rose to the mainstream during the pandemic.
“While adults working from home flocked to Zoom, their children were downloading Discord and mingling with other young people via text, audio and video calls in groups called servers,” the NYT said. “From gamers to music lovers. , expanded to students and cryptocurrency enthusiasts,” he said.
Discord changed its motto from "chat for gamers" to "a new way to chat with the community and friends", allowing users to chat with fake names.
"The task of getting users to follow community standards is largely left to the organizers of the individual Discord servers," the NYT said. It made me do it,” he said.
Discord is divided into chat room servers similar to Slack for office workers, ensuring casual and free conversations about games, music, memes and daily life are facilitated. Some of the larger servers are open to the public, others are invite-only.
Discord monetizes through a subscription service that is ad-free and allows users to access features like custom emotes for $5 or $10 per month.

On April 2, 2020, Yonhap News reported, “The police launched an extensive investigation into foreign messengers such as Telegram, which has been a channel for distribution of sexual exploitation material, following the so-called ‘room n’ incident, but Discord does not care about this situation. Rather, in an evolved form, sexual exploitation is openly circulating.”

On March 8, 2021, the Kyunghyang Shinmun published an article titled <'Room n' Sexual Exploitation Moved to Discord'>, saying, “Sexual exploitation videos, which were mainly traded on Telegram in the past, use 'Discord', a voice chat messenger for games. “Discord is one of the overseas messengers that users have moved to since March of last year when the police investigation into Telegram, a hotbed of sexual exploitation videos, began in earnest. It is known as a popular messenger among domestic game users.”