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Clinton Trolls Shut Down Pro-Sanders Facebook Groups on the Eve of Elections

posted by cmn32480 on Wednesday April 27 2016, @12:17PM   Printer-friendly
from the gotta-love-social-media dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

US Uncut reports:

Some of the biggest pro-Bernie Sanders groups on Facebook were briefly taken down Monday evening in a targeted attack by Hillary Clinton supporters.

The groups Bernie Sanders Activists, Bernie Believers, BERNIE OR BUST, Bernie Sanders Revolutionaries, Bay Area for Bernie, Bernie Sanders 2016 — Ideas Welcome, Bernie Sanders is my HERO, and Bernie Sanders for President 2016 were all taken down in the attack. The pages in question were reported to be down for about three hours, from 9 p.m. to midnight Monday night.

Collectively, these groups are home to more than a quarter million Bernie Sanders supporters, and some have been in existence for nearly a year, having been launched shortly after the Vermont senator declared his intent to run for president in 2015.

The groups were targeted by online trolls, who posted pornographic images and reported the groups to Facebook admins.

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  • (Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday April 27 2016, @12:43PM

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday April 27 2016, @12:43PM (#337903) Journal
    There's also the matter of actually pinning this on anyone. For example, if these trolls were operating out of Russia and had the protection of organized crime and/or the Russian government, it doesn't matter if if you somehow figure out who did it. They're out of reach.

    and suing in civil court

    There probably would also be FBI involvement. If the punishment for committing a crime is getting sued in civil court, then IMHO it's not really a crime no matter what the laws on the book say it is.

  • (Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Wednesday April 27 2016, @01:03PM

    by JoeMerchant (3937) on Wednesday April 27 2016, @01:03PM (#337916)

    I don't know the details, but I seriously doubt that the coordinated attack was done cleanly, with everybody involved covering their digital tracks or operating out of a non-extradition country.

    Fun related movie just came to Netflix: "1971" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bOy3RNyWME [youtube.com] (ok ok, a better parallel for this event would be Watergate, but it's amazing how many things "flash back" on a 30-50 year cycle)

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 27 2016, @02:28PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 27 2016, @02:28PM (#337945)

      a better parallel for this event would be Watergate,

      SJWs silencing other opinions online? Sounds more like #Gamergate to me.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 27 2016, @11:09PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 27 2016, @11:09PM (#338188)

        a better parallel for this event would be Watergate,

        SJWs silencing other opinions online? Sounds more like #Gamergate to me.

        Shut up, Donnie! You're out of your league!