Pentagon leaks: How social platform Discord found itself in the spotlight

A twenty-one-year-old US National Guardsman Jack Teixeira has appeared in court in Boston accused of leaking highly-sensitive military intelligence. He’s said to have distributed very damaging intelligence on everything from Ukraine's war plans to Washington spying on its allies like South Korea. But there's one part of this that is especially interesting - it was all initially distributed on Discord, a social media platform, popular with gamers. (Picture: Two Wooden People Figures Communicating. Picture Credit: Getty Images)