'This is a new challenge for the military: When you have all the people who grew up in a purely digital age enlisting, the lines are blurred for how they communicate,'Jordan Uhl, a progressive activist, said.
SPAIN - 2022/11/29: In this photo illustration, the Discord social media App seen displayed on a smartphone. For years, the U.S. military has pushed to meet prospective Generation Z recruits on Discord, the online group-chat tool where many spend their time. It even runs a 17,000-member chatroom there for service members to talk about first-person shooter games, meet with career counselors and participate in what one sergeant in 2019 called the "Army of tomorrow.
That attempt to flex his military status for online approval ended with Teixeira's arrest Thursday. On Friday, he was charged with two counts of retaining and sharing classified national defense information, punishable by up to 15 years in prison. Video games are one of the most popular forms of media for the 18- to 21-year-olds who are the target for the Defense Department's recruiting efforts and make up much of its junior ranks. The military sponsors esports tournaments to drive interest and advertises on the popular game-streaming site Twitch.
Teixeira began sharing the documents late last year, FBI investigators said. By last month, a group member had reposted some of them in a separate Discord server, effectively sparking their viral spread. Teixeira's profile on the gaming marketplace Steam shows him playing lots of first-person shooters and military simulations with millions of players: the realistic military shooter "Arma 3," the hardcore survival game "Project Zomboid" and the battle royale shooter "PUBG: Battlegrounds."
That kind of online bravado is common in Discord gaming groups steeped in the macho, hard-charging culture of tactical shooters and military combat, Ivory said. Some members end up egging each other on toward increasingly cavalier behavior, he said, often because they feel safer in a closed-communal setting than if they were broadcasting their feelings to social media or the world.
In a report by the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, Discord officials were said to have acknowledged that "the risks of relying too much on user moderation when the userbase may not have an interest in reporting problematic content." Progressive activists have criticized the military for using Twitch streamers and gaming channels popular with young viewers to promote military life and shape their perceptions about war.
The Pentagon's detailed guide to Discord shows military officials counseling users to be aware of "personal security vulnerabilities" and suggests specific privacy and safety controls for an app that it said allows "friends and communities to stay in touch and spend time together." Roughly 3 million Americans have undergone the months-long process of acquiring security clearance, where they are asked about details of their behaviors and personal histories and made to provide names they might use online. But many Discord servers are invite-only and ask for direct confirmation of members' authenticity, blocking them from public view.
"We do not have nor do we want a system where the United States government monitors private internet chats," Glenn Gerstell, the former general counsel of the National Security Agency, told NBC on Wednesday.
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