What Next TBD: How Gamers Leaked Classified Pentagon Docs

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🗓️ 14 April 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Discord is a place to share a community online. Most often, it's for gaming. So why did classified intelligence from the Pentagon end up on a small server whose main interests seem to be video games, military equipment and memes? And how? Guest: Shane Harris, national security reporter for the Washington Post. Host: Lizzie O’Leary If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next TBD. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I made you think you was real.
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0:15.0	Something terrible happened last summer,
0:17.0	and I have no memory of what or who hurt me.
0:20.0	No one in my family will tell me.
0:22.7	When you're left for dead, you want answers. We were liars. New series, watch now, only on
0:28.9	Prime Video. Heads up, everyone. This is a fast-moving story, and we recorded this on Thursday night.
0:36.8	Also, there's a little swearing in this episode.
0:39.6	Consider yourselves warned. Here's the show.
0:46.5	Hey guys, Filipino YouTube celebrity here. Guess who just got an article on Forbes?
0:54.0	Me. But not for the best reasons.
0:59.5	That is the voice of Wow Mau, a YouTuber whose channel is mostly weird meme videos and
1:06.3	mildly insane thought experiments like which U.S. president would you smoke weed with?
1:12.8	He also runs a Discord server where this happened.
1:22.1	On the 1st of March, Ahmad on my Discord server shared 30 plus leaked documents concerning the Russia-Ukraine
1:29.6	war. And one month later, my name is showing up on news sites such as Forbes, the Telegraph,
1:35.1	and the Washington Post.
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