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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: 3, Informative) by purple_cobra on Wednesday April 27 2016, @05:30PM

    by purple_cobra (1435) on Wednesday April 27 2016, @05:30PM (#338039)

    Reading all this reminded me of something I was forced to read in school, 'Antony and Cleopatra':
    MENAS

            These three world-sharers, these competitors,
            Are in thy vessel: let me cut the cable;
            And, when we are put off, fall to their throats:
            All there is thine.

    POMPEY

            Ah, this thou shouldst have done,
            And not have spoke on't! In me 'tis villany;
            In thee't had been good service. Thou must know,
            'Tis not my profit that does lead mine honour;
            Mine honour, it. Repent that e'er thy tongue
            Hath so betray'd thine act: being done unknown,
            I should have found it afterwards well done;
            But must condemn it now. Desist, and drink.

    There's nothing new under the sun.

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