tonight on the reidout i m going to have to swallow t this, the hallowed halls, and watching them disrespect the state that i chose to move to. by golly, it s got to stop as justin pearson is sworn back into the tennessee legislature, linked audio of the tennessee republicans who expelled them reveals exactly who they are, and it s not pretty also, as jury selection gets under way in the dominion defamation trial against fox, we re hearing new audio of top trump lackeys admitting there was no evidence to support their wild election conspiracy theories and arrested in that major intelligence leak. the documents revealed to the world through the discord online platform, which has been very popular with far right extremists we begin tonight with a performance that would have made even pt barnum squirm. i m referring to the recent interview between the living curiosities donald trump and tucker carlson for all to see trump displayed his usual performance of pretendi
probably aren t foulard with discord, a social media and messaging platform founded in 2015, as the new york times wrote, it has exploded into the main stream. in 2021, discord had more than 150 million active users each month, up from 56 million in 2019 it s not just for gamers or young people meeting friends it s also a space where people are going down rabbit holes of extremism and violence, sharing their intentions and finding like-minded people in the second half of 2020, discord deleaded thousands of extremist communities including the far right, the violent antigump boogaloo movement, and qanon conspiracy theories. discord has a zero tolerance policy toward extremism, but it hasn t stopped extremists from using it white supremacists used it to organize the unite the right
secret because i still care fo him like he s a family member. he s not a russian operative, a ukrainian operative. i will go as far as to say he not on the wrong side of the world, a young charismatic man who loved in nature, god, wh loved shooting guns and racing cars the washington post interviewed a member of th online community on the social media platform discord about the man he knew as og, who was responsible for the massiv leak of classified pentago documents, including sensitive u.s. military secrets about th war in ukraine today, we learned who og is. attorney general merrick garland announced the arrest o 21-year-old jack teixeira, a massachusetts air national guardsmen in connection with a justice department investigation into how the classified pentagon document made their way online. the new york times first identified teixeira, noting he oversaw a private online group where about 20 to 30 people, mostly young men and teenagers
rally. the racist who shot and killed ten people at a grocery store in buffalo detailed his plans on discord, posting documents from the avowed racist who killed 51 muslims in attacks on mosques in new zealand in 2019, and other messages made his intentions clear. it s time to stop blank posting and time to make a real life effort, blank post i will carry out an attack the suspect who killed seven people at a fourth of july parade in highland park, illinois, also had his own discord server, or so-called fans and people who knew him would chat and share posts he made of himself. of course, discord is not alone in becoming a breeding ground for online extremism and violence the buffalo shooter live streamed on another platform, twitch, and posted motives on 4t 4chan, and the gunman in uvalde, texas, posted on a social media networking app popular with young folks. it s discord now at the center
who will have a lot of explaining to do about why thi information was disseminated s widely and why he had th ability to download this information as a very junior member of the massachusetts ai national guard ben, let me go to you unlike snowden or manning, som of these previous ones, this person did not seem to b ideological or a winner who is trying to help the u.s. versus russia this person seems like he wa entertaining his fans on discord. talk a little bit about thes platforms and how they are being used and who they ar attracting of course i want to say my colleague spencer ackerman, he had a blo post about this today saying this is the first edge lor leaker this is a guy who has no large larger point he is doing this to make bette friends with people, 20 to 3 person group of people playing video games on the interne together that s really what happene here i want to give you a quick