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Darkness of Discord: the social media platform you’ve never heard of

As Jack Teixeira, a 21-year-old IT specialist, was arraigned on espionage charges in Boston on Friday, fresh questions emerged about the biggest intelligence leak to hit the US in a decade.

How was it that a junior IT guy had access to so many top-secret files? Why was it apparently so easy for him to copy and spirit them out of Otis air base in Cape Cod, Massachusetts?

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