Did Anonymous ‘spokesperson’ rickroll The Alyona Show?

RT’s The Alonya Show must have thought it had a great exclusive on its hands, when it announced it would be broadcasting an interview with a representative of the loosely-knit Anonymous protest group.

_{(In an earlier version of this article, I sloppily described Anonymous as a hacking group. Although there are hackers who support Anonymous, it’s an inaccurate way of describing the group.)}

After all, the British and United States authorities had announced that they had arrested scores of people suspected of participating in denial-of-service attacks that had disrupted websites belonging to well-known organisations.

Of course,…

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