The man who allegedly leaked classified U.S. military documents on a social gaming platform is reportedly a gun-lover who was searching for friends during the COVID-19 pandemic …
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00:00The person who recently leaked the U.S. military documents is reportedly a gun-loving man who
00:05shared the classified information while seeking friends during the COVID-19 pandemic. So who did
00:10he allegedly share the documents with and what information did they contain? Fruit can explain
00:14in less than 60 seconds. According to the Washington Post, the man shared the documents
00:19in an online discord group, which was primarily made up of more than 20 men and boys who were
00:23interested in guns, the military, and God. The Washington Post interviewed a teenage member who,
00:28on the condition of anonymity, said the leader, aka OG, claimed to work on a military base.
00:34While the reach of the classified documents was limited to that one discord group for a while,
00:38the documents were being shared on other groups hosted by the social gaming platform by the end
00:42of February 2023. And by early April, the classified documents found their way onto Telegram,
00:474chan, and Twitter. The documents reportedly contain information on vulnerabilities in
00:52Ukraine's military, other countries' communications with Russia, and an overall
00:56pessimistic view of the war in Ukraine.