The leaderless collective Anonymous has announced their return, this time with a leader (their founder), to destroy the QAnon scam that co-opted much of the imagery and language of their movement. https://twitter.com/kirtaner/status/1321975553264680960">https://twitter.com/kirtaner/...

Their opening salvo: Anonymous released documentation that the sole company which QAnon relies on to post, N T Technologies, owner of 8kun, also appears to have owned scores of child sexual abuse themed URLs https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/10/jim-watkins-child-pornography-domains/">https://www.motherjones.com/politics/...

You can read my piece in The Atlantic from a few months ago on Anonymous’ origins, Aubrey Cottle’s role in its founding, and its current trajectory here: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/08/hacker-group-anonymous-returns/615058/">https://www.theatlantic.com/technolog...

And if you’d like to know more about how N T Technologies and its owner Jim Watkins enables (and possibly is) QAnon listen to this great @replyall piece I helped work on— more reporting on all of this by me soon! Many weird things happening! https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/llhe5nm/166-country-of-liars">https://gimletmedia.com/shows/rep...