I was surprised by its reemergence, and wanted to understand how and why it seemed to be coming back, starting with who had made the new video. I had recently published a book that detailed the tangled origins of Anonymous, and until last month, I’d thought the group had faded away. However, it did reveal that local and federal law-enforcement groups spread poorly researched and exaggerated misinformation to Minnesota police officers during the unrest in May and June, and made efforts to monitor protesters’ social-media activity. The hack, labeled #BlueLeaks, contained little information about police misconduct. Three weeks later, on Juneteenth, a person identifying as Anonymous leaked hundreds of gigabytes of internal police files from more than 200 agencies across the U.S.
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Likewise, when the Minneapolis Police Department website went offline from an apparent DDoS attack-a hack that overwhelms a target site with traffic-social media credited Anonymous. News outlets speculated that it was Anonymous who had hijacked Chicago police scanners on May 30 and 31 to play N.W.A’s “Fuck tha Police” and Tay Zonday’s “Chocolate Rain,” a 2007 song that served as an unofficial anthem for the group.
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One of the largest Anonymous accounts on Twitter begged people to “stop sending us nudes.”Ī series of hacks followed the release of the video. Others used the chat service Discord to create virtual spaces where thousands of new devotees could celebrate the hackers with memes and fan fiction.
“How does one apply to be a part of Anonymous? I just wanna help out, I’ll even make the hackers coffee or suttin” an activist in the United Kingdom joked on Twitter, garnering hundreds of thousands of likes and retweets.Īnonymous “stan” (super fan) accounts remixed the video on TikTok to give the shadowy figure glamorous nails and jewelry. But after a spate of arrests, it had largely faded from view. Twitter accounts associated with the group saw a surge of new followers, a couple of them by the millions.Īt the height of its popularity, in 2012, Anonymous had been a network of thousands of activists, a minority of them hackers, devoted to leftist-libertarian ideals of personal freedom and opposed to the consolidation of corporate and government power. The clip generated a wave of renewed enthusiasm for Anonymous, particularly among young people. Justin Ellis: Minneapolis had this coming To hear more feature stories, get the Audm iPhone app.
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