4chan threats against Watson were false flag

I could have sworn I saw a thread about this, but I can't find it again.

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The Harry Potter star and UN women's ambassador delivered an impassioned speech at the launch of the UN's HeForShe campaign, which calls for men to support women in striving for gender equality. Users of the online community 4chan, which previously leaked private nude photos of female celebrities including Jennifer Lawrence and Kate Upton, created a thread linking to a webpage called "EmmaYouAreNext.com". The page showed a photo of Watson with a clock which was assumed to be counting down to the time nude photos of her would be posted. Social media users rallied behind Watson in condemning the threats and blaming 4chan users for the website. But it now appears to have been a marketing stunt by an organisation called Rantic, which aims to shut down 4chan. The redirected page now shows a message to US president Barack Obama and calls on people to support the calls to shut down the site. "We have been hired by celebrity publicists to bring this disgusting issue to attention," the statement said. "The recent 4chan celebrity nude leaks in past 2 months have been an invasion of privacy and is also clear indication that the internet need to be censored."

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