Anonymous

decentralized, internet-based protest movement which organizes cyber attacks and demonstrations for freedom and against various forms of grievance
Organization hacker_group Q10920
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Anonymous

Summary

Anonymous is a hacker group[1]. Anonymous ranks in the top 3% of hacker_group entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (5,325 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Anonymous's instance of is recorded as hacker group[3].
  • Anonymous's instance of is recorded as social movement[4].
  • Anonymous's founder is recorded as Aubrey Cottle[5].
  • Anonymous's Commons category is recorded as Anonymous (group)[6].
  • 2003 marks the founding of Anonymous[7].
  • Anonymous's official website is recorded as https://youranon.news/[8].
  • Anonymous's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Anonymous (hacker group)[9].
  • Anonymous's topic has template is recorded as Template:Anonymous and the Internet[10].
  • Anonymous's different from is recorded as Anonymous[11].
  • Anonymous's hashtag is recorded as Anonymous[12].
  • Anonymous's social media followers is recorded as {'amount': '+6903608'}[13].
  • Anonymous's social media followers is recorded as {'amount': '+3560000'}[14].
  • Anonymous's social media followers is recorded as {'amount': '+7385957'}[15].

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

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  • Type: Group[16]

  • Country: XW[17]

  • Began / founded: 2003[18]

  • Community tags: 4chan, internet culture[19]

  • MusicBrainz ID: e678a836-ea47-4d43-abf9-d37fa0601e5d[20]

Body

Founding

Anonymous's founder is recorded as Aubrey Cottle[5]. 2003 marks the founding of Anonymous[7].

Why It Matters

Anonymous ranks in the top 3% of hacker_group entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (5,325 views/month).[2] Anonymous has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[21] Anonymous is known by 6 alternative names across languages and contexts.[22]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . theatlantic.com. theatlantic.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . youranon.news. youranon.news. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [16] . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [17] . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [18] . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [19] . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  5. [20] . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [21] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [22] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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