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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   
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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• Re:Evidence it was done by Clinton supporters? (Score: 3, Interesting) by n1 on Wednesday April 27 2016, @02:57PM

  by n1 (993) on Wednesday April 27 2016, @02:57PM (#337966) Journal

  I don't use Facebook so i'm not really sure how to verify the credibility or authenticity of a group on the website.

  That said, the story appears to have originally broke via Heavy.com, which contacted 'BROS 4 HILLARY' which is where the quote came from, distancing themselves from the actions of 'one former member' and the group apparently has several thousand members.

  http://heavy.com/news/2016/04/bernie-sanders-facebook-groups-removed-banned-deleted-why-hillary-clinton-attack-censorship-which/ [heavy.com]
  also: http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2016/04/clintons-internet-supporters-allegedly-using-porno.html [pastemagazine.com]

  The evidence is reasonably convincing to me at least, that a handful of Clinton supporters took it upon themselves to go above and beyond. That does not mean this was sanctioned by Clinton or any PAC associated with her. But to quote her "What difference does it make?" it's just a drop in the ocean of the psyops going on around this particular election.

  Sorry, i didn't mean psyops, i meant engaging with the electorate.

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