Mayor Gray, other U.S. leaders absent from ‘real’ Anonymous KKK list

United States mayors and senators denied having any links to the Ku Klux Klan after their names were listed among KKK members by someone claiming to be with Anonymous.

Almost a year later, Anonymous has now released a list compiled of alleged members of the supremacist group containing names and links to their social media accounts on Facebook and Google+.

“We don’t know anything about these people”, the partner told The Washington Post in a conference call with his attorney and one of the firm’s accountants on Tuesday.

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Anonymous said it had used human intelligence – not hacking – to create the list.

Anonymous is a loosely connected collective of individuals, many of whom identify as internet activists.

“I am absolutely not a member of the Ku Klux Klan”, Aiken stated to the BBC.

A partner at the firm said the office number for his firm, run by five partners of Indian descent, was on a list of numbers and e-mails associated with Ku Klux Klan members. An unrelated and discredited list falsely outed several politiciansearlier this week, but though that data dump was credited to Anonymous, the group behind the list released today insists they had nothing to do with it, and that they have been guarding their information closely.

“This information is absolutely false and comes from an unverified source”, said a spokeswoman for a different senator, adding that he “has never been affiliated with the KKK”.

Anonymous is a loose group of online vigilantes without permanent leadership, whose members are self-selected and that targets particular projects often with the intention of harassing and embarrassing people and organisations unpopular with its members.

But the group posted on Twitter: ‘We respect the work of our fellow freedom fighters.

“It’s not going to change their attitude”, Pitcavage said of outing KKK members. You are more than extremists.

The Southern Poverty Law Center, an Alabama-based organization that tracks the movement and activity of hate groups, would not comment. “We hope this body of work speaks for itself.”, the document states in an introduction to the list. As the list began to circulate, even more of the linked accounts began to vanish.

Michael Brown, 18, was shot dead by police officer Darren Wilson, despite being unarmed.

But Coleman said that the final results of Operation KKK speak to a few interesting changes in Anonymous’s inner workings.

The Million Mask March, which has been taking place annually on Guy Fawkes Day since 2012, sees the group’s activities move from the digital world into the real world, as hundreds of thousands of Anons taking to the street to protest against corruption and injustice, with the 2015 March taking place in over 600 locations around the world. However, the official Ku Klux Klan twitter account has disavowed all the files and said they will not be releasing the data till November 5, as was originally planned. “Part of the reason we have taken the hoods off of these individuals is not because of their identities, but because of what their hoods symbolize to us in our broader society”, Anonymous wrote in the Pastebin.