Days after the Pentagon announced it was investigating the leak of more than 50 classified documents that turned up on social media sites, dozens of them remain viewable on Twitter.
Photos of the leaked documents first appeared on a social media platform called Discord weeks earlier and sat largely unnoticed before making their way to more mainstream sites like Twitter and other platforms like Telegram. The fact that these documents sat undetected for so long and in some cases continue to circulate online underscores the limited authority the US government has to force social media companies to remove content, even classified materials that threaten national security.
It has roughly two dozen other policies in its community guidelines, including bans on “illegal behavior,” conduct that infringes on others’ “intellectual property or other rights,” and spreading false or misleading information. On Discord, content resides on community-managed chatrooms known as “servers.” The basic structure of the platform can make it easier for illegal content to linger in niche corners compared to more centralized platforms.
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