2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumSnopes and BernieFbGhazi
http://www.snopes.com/2016/04/26/bernie-sanders-facebook-groups-controversy/regardless, the conspiracies will abound, because they are ever more sexy than the bland reality.
Astroturfing is is nothing new during campaign season, nor is it something that has never been attached to the Clinton campaign. But aside from unsourced screenshots, no information emerged to substantiate the April 2016 claims of coordinated or paid harassment of Sanders supporters on social media.
bkkyosemite
(5,792 posts)PeaceNikki
(27,985 posts)JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)Yet we found the time to orchestrate a massive online conspiracy?
Lucinda
(31,170 posts)Sheepshank
(12,504 posts)Lucinda
(31,170 posts)At least they tried!
PeaceNikki
(27,985 posts)Sheepshank
(12,504 posts)Human101948
(3,457 posts)http://usuncut.com/politics/clinton-super-pac-busted/
PeaceNikki
(27,985 posts)Also a PAC isn't "Hillary".
Human101948
(3,457 posts)You are so gullible.
think
(11,641 posts)Sheepshank
(12,504 posts)http://www.bros4hillary.com/statement-from-b4h-leadership/
Ludicrously, they want us to believe that only 1 (now ex) member is responsible for the take down of 16+ pages. They want us to believe that a few complaints will trigger a take down. For those of you who are not aware of Face Book's take down policies, it takes mass reporting in order for Face Book to react as quickly as it did.
frylock
(34,825 posts)Response to Sheepshank (Reply #9)
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Kelvin Mace
(17,469 posts)I tire of wading through this every day. To be fair, if the shoe were on the other foot, I would be readings hundreds of posts making the same allegations against Sanders' supporters.
silvershadow
(10,336 posts)leftynyc
(26,060 posts)you use the word terrorist. It actually has a specific meaning. Violence for political reasons. If you have some EVIDENCE that Brock uses violence, go to the police or the fbi - if not - stop with the hyperbolic bullshit. Since we already know from earlier today you lack any evidence of ANY wrongdoing, perhaps it's time to lay off the politics for a while as it seems to make you blurt out lies that you get very upset at being asked to back up.
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nolawarlock
(1,729 posts)Is that how we should now describe the people who abuse the jury system here to silence opposition? I see no difference between that and exploiting the flaws of the Facebook system, though I'm still skeptical as to whether the latter was even actually done.
silvershadow
(10,336 posts)(whatever that really is) as President Obama had a big Presser when the change was made, so yes.
JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)silvershadow
(10,336 posts)JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)silvershadow
(10,336 posts)as you might know, we have made and are making a YUGE difference in the party. The divide is here. It is upon us. I have written tomes over the last many years about it right here, and here we are...still without a nominee because she was so weak. Bernie stepped in to save the party from itself. Good thing he did, too.
nolawarlock
(1,729 posts)nolawarlock
(1,729 posts)Not sure what's to say to that.
Well, I guess I can say that desperate has a very distinct stench and I can smell it quite strongly right now.
Raine1967
(11,589 posts)Brock is a lot of things to a lot of people...
He's not a terrorist.
Seriously, I know you are advocating for Sanders, but for you to claim that Brock has terrorists is insulting to people who actually have been victims of or who have actually witnessed terroristic acts.
Your post is over the top.
silvershadow
(10,336 posts)we fight this very thing under the purview of the War on Terror (whatever that is)
Raine1967
(11,589 posts)That said, please proceed.
frylock
(34,825 posts)Last night, a former member by the name of Casey Champagne decided to engage in harassing behavior toward Facebook groups of Bernie Sanders and posted about it in the B4H Facebook group. As stated above, this was not promoted or supported by the leadership of B4H, nor were we immediately aware of this conduct. We removed the offending posts and member as soon as possible. While our leadership team of administrators tries to catch every questionable post and comment, with over 7,000 members and on a 24-hour posting cycle, some fall through the cracks. We rely on members to flag and report harmful, offensive, or trolling behavior, and apologize to the groups that were affected. This member acted on his own authority, is not a part of our leadership team, and does not represent our ideals or our opinions.
http://www.bros4hillary.com/statement-from-b4h-leadership/
leftynyc
(26,060 posts)from your own link.
frylock
(34,825 posts)Tarc
(10,476 posts)They identified a bad apple and kicked him out.
frylock
(34,825 posts)Yeah, sorry. Not buying it.
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Dem2
(8,168 posts)Ludicrously, they want us to believe that only 1 (now ex) member is responsible for the take down of 16+ pages. They want us to believe that a few complaints will trigger a take down. For those of you who are not aware of Face Book's take down policies, it takes mass reporting in order for Face Book to react as quickly as it did.
frylock
(34,825 posts)Dem2
(8,168 posts)frylock
(34,825 posts)OilemFirchen
(7,143 posts)They refused to let several hundred thousand Berniacs cross that bridge.
nolawarlock
(1,729 posts)Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Gee, it sure looks like someone spammed those pages- specifically, bernie sanders groups- with SOME sort of extremely objectionable material, triggering facebook's "automated" shutting down of those groups.
Which I guess COULD be spun as a "database error", you know, as long as people dont think about it for more than 20 seconds.
Good thing is, the internet is forever, and people will get to the bottom of this.
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/277657-hillary-supporters-take-down-bernie-fb-pages-in-coordinated
"We had what looked like a kiddie porn posted in one of our groups today, said Sanders supporter Erica Libenow, according to Heavy.com. "I reported that one. Seriously made me want to vomit.
A Facebook spokesman confirmed to The Hill that a number of pro-Sanders groups as well as other pages "were inaccessible for a brief period" due to the company's automated policies being "applied incorrectly."