Barrett Brown has been an unofficial “spokesman” of sorts for Anonymous, a go-to guy whenever a news outlet needed a real name or a face to put on TV. Brown decided to help Anonymous in a public fashion after being contacted by Gregg Housh. He had a front-row seat for the late 2010 Anonymous ops targeting Middle Eastern regimes. Brown: “There’s little quality control in a movement like that, which was not a huge problem when the emphasis was on assisting with North African revolutions and those who came on board were of a certain sort””]
Source: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2011/05/why-anonymous-spokesman-is-leaving-the-group/