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

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: 2) by Gaaark on Wednesday April 27 2016, @04:57PM

    by Gaaark (41) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday April 27 2016, @04:57PM (#338022) Journal

    The Green party in Canada has been seeing its numbers go up the last few elections:

    Then the 'We have to get rid of Harper' election came and its numbers went down because of people voting Liberal to make sure Harper left.

    here's hoping that those numbers will go up again in the next election here.
    We have, basically, a 3 party system here, but it would be nice to see a fourth... and proper representation of our votes! (VOTE REFORM AND NO TPP MR. TRUDEAU!!!)

    And if i was American, i think i'd vote for Mr. Hankey the Christmas Poo (or Trump) before i'd vote for Hillary... i trust her as far as i could throw Trump!

    Mr. Hankey, the Christmas Poo: i'd vote for him before i'd vote for you....Hillary.....
    (was that off-key?)

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