The chatting app Discord is one of the most popular ways gamers communicate online.
about guns, games, favorite memes and, according to some who chatted with him, closely guarded U.S. secrets.Discord started in 2015 as a nerdy online hangout for gamers and had some hiccups in its quest for mainstream success. Its growth accelerated during the COVID-19 pandemic as a forum for its mostly younger users to gossip or even help each other with homework.
Discord announced in January that it was buying another teen-focused social app called Gas, which enables people to share online polls and uplifting compliments. Some users might have “friend servers” of several dozen people they know in real life, while others might join larger servers devoted to an online community of people interested in a specific topic.
The diary, kept on a private, invite-only server, included months of racist, antisemitic entries along with step-by-step descriptions of the shooter’s assault plans, a detailed account of a reconnaissance trip he made, and hand-drawn maps of the store. He livestreamed the attack on a different platform, Twitch.
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