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The arrest of a Guardsman accused of leaking classified documents doesn’t end the dilemma for the military: how to supervise a young workforce that has access to classified secrets but lives much of its life online.
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The U.S. Army knows something about Discord - it runs an official 17,000-member chatroom on the service.
Jack Teixeira began sharing documents late last year, FBI investigators said. By last month, a group member had reposted some of them in a separate Discord server, effectively sparking their viral spread.
Defense Department officials have struggled to confront the risks of how Discord's closed channels operate.
For years, the U.S. military has pushed to meet prospective Generation Z recruits on Discord, the online group-chat tool where many spend their time. It even runs a 17,000-member chatroom there for service members to talk about first-person shooter games.