Investigations continue on the side of the US government, after the leak of confidential documents about the war in Ukraine. According to the latest investigations, part of the documents were shared by a user on the Discord server of a youtuber who calls himself “wow_mao”, report it Washington Post.
According to the Philippine YouTuber, an internet user found the documents on another Discord server and posted more than 30 of them on his server as of March 1.
On his YouTube channel, he mainly posts humorous videos drawn from internet culture. In his latest explainer video of him, he describes himself as a “micro internet celebrity.”
The leaked documents refer mainly to around thirty photographs and maps of the situation of the war in Ukraine, as well as estimates of the losses suffered by each side.
Documents deleted over time
early March, According to a survey From the Bellingcat collaborative site, the documents began to appear on the Discord servers through quite confidential groups such as Minecraft Earth Map, End of Wow Mao Zone or even Thug Shaker Central, belonging to the youtuber Oxide.. Before spreading all over the Internet, on Telegram messaging or on the popular far-right forum 4chan.
At the moment, the source of the leak has not yet been identified. Most of the photos are no longer available on the sites where they originally appeared. For its part, the Pentagon estimated this April 11 that the risk to the national security of the United States is “very serious” and continues to evaluate the “validity of the documents.”
Source: BFM TV
