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The other thing I keep seeing is a "leak" of a court filing by "Anonymous" alleging that Trump and Epstein committed various sexual offenses. I think it's unfortunate that the disinformation attributing this to Anonymous is spreading because the court filing has been publicly available since 2016. It seems that two Twitter accounts are parroting this around under the guises on Anonymous which really discredits the actual group.

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> under the guises on Anonymous which really discredits the actual group.

This is impossible because Anonymous isn't an "actual group". It's any one who does anything and calls themselves Anonymous (a word that means "unknown name").

Has Anonymous ever been an actual group or more of a loose collection of people claiming the name?

Read the wikipedia page, its pretty accurate. There have been arrests for 'Anonymous' hacks but it's not really a group, more so an idea.

You're totally right and I shouldn't have referred to them as one entity. Even so, I think that Twitter accounts "representing" Anonymous spreading misinformation really discredits the work other Anonymous members do.

sabu[1] existed and was an actual person behind a keyboard at least some of the time. Hard to say where it starts and where it ends now, or then.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hector_Monsegur

I don’t think the point of taking up the “anonymous” moniker is to get credit. That’s a fundamental misunderstanding of the underlying meme, which is populist, not meritocratic or whatever. It’s spelled out quite well in V for Vendetta...

> the work other Anonymous members do

such as?

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