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Open-source intelligence analysts reported that Crooks didn’t appear to use mainstream social media channels such as Facebook or Instagram and had an almost negligible internet footprint, which is highly unusual for a 20-year-old. Instead, analysts said that Crooks corresponded with friends and associates on a Discord server that they were now trying to access.

Discord servers are restricted ring-fenced sections of the internet. They are often used by gaming groups and communities as secure chat rooms but are also used by fringe organisations to push their ideologies and discuss wild conspiracy theories and plots.

  • healthkick
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    2 months ago

    Rabidly pro-Ukraine?

    Wanted to kickstart helterskelter?

    Trump was too left for his tastes?

    Trump was too right for this Romneyite?

    Gamer just wanted to get a Wikipedia page?

    • TheDoctor [they/them]
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      2 months ago

      Trump was too right for this Romneyite?

      The militant Mormon uprising has begun. Salt Lake City will stand for 1000 years.

    • BlueMagaChud [any]
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      2 months ago

      Gamer just wanted to get a Wikipedia page?

      almost certainly this one, you miss 100% of the shots you...do take apparently