'Racial slurs and racist memes were shared widely.' The server 'was not especially geopolitical in nature, although its users had a staunchly conservative stance on several issues,' Bellingcat recounted. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was briefed on the leak April 6.īellingcat spoke with three members of the Thug Shaker Central server, which was deleted April 7, and they described it as a tight-knit community of about 20 active users who shared an interest in video games, music, and Orthodox Christianity. Bellingcat traced a handful of leaked documents from Thug Shaker Central to two larger Discord servers in early March, then 4Chan, and finally, on April 5, pro-Russia Telegram channels. Most of the documents that have emerged are from February and March, but the open-source investigators at Bellingcat said they saw evidence of documents from January. Users of the social media site Discord say an administrator of a closed group chat room, or server, called 'Thug Shaker Central' posted hundreds of classified documents during arguments over Russia's Ukraine invasion.

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