2016 Postmortem

KamaAina

(78,249 posts) Tue Apr 26, 2016, 06:15 PM Apr 2016

Hillary supporters accused of taking down Bernie FB pages in porn attack

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/277657-hillary-supporters-take-down-bernie-fb-pages-in-coordinated

Multiple Facebook pages supporting Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders were abruptly removed from the social media network late last night following a cyberattack.

The pro-Sanders pages — which include Bernie or Bust, Bernie Believers and Bernie Sanders is my HERO — were collectively followed by over a quarter-million supporters of the Vermont senator, and many had been operating continuously since Sanders launched his campaign last year....

According to eyewitness reports, the pages were flooded with pornographic images in what appeared to be coordinated fashion and then flagged for obscene content, prompting Facebook to remove them.

"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.”

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Hillary supporters accused of taking down Bernie FB pages in porn attack (Original Post) KamaAina Apr 2016 OP

Already been debunked. Another false accusation. Agnosticsherbet Apr 2016 #1

Does Facebook keep a stock of child porn on their servers Downwinder Apr 2016 #7

No, it happened. Punkingal Apr 2016 #9

This has been debunked. athena Apr 2016 #2

How? Maedhros Apr 2016 #12

I guess you ignored the other posts about this? athena Apr 2016 #14

I had not seen the other posts. Maedhros Apr 2016 #15

I saw somewhere one of the attackers is a Hillary superdelegate Kalidurga Apr 2016 #3

Nope metroins Apr 2016 #4

Mostly false. Agschmid Apr 2016 #5

Break the rules,... scscholar Apr 2016 #6

I LOVE the idea of a Facebook "eyewitness"! OilemFirchen Apr 2016 #8

And yet the one post that claims it was "just a glitch" is taken as gospel truth. Warren DeMontague Apr 2016 #11

Yeah, well... OilemFirchen Apr 2016 #13

We'll see, I guess. I mean, due to the drug war which is enabled by some of "our" leadership Warren DeMontague Apr 2016 #16

Just another "accident" that benefits Hillary beerandjesus Apr 2016 #10

Agnosticsherbet

(11,619 posts)

1. Already been debunked. Another false accusation.

Reply to KamaAina (Original post)

Tue Apr 26, 2016, 06:16 PM

Apr 2016

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/04/26/an-elaborate-hillary-clinton-facebook-conspiracy-with-coordinated-attacks-and-porn-no-just-a-glitch.html

Downwinder

(12,869 posts)

7. Does Facebook keep a stock of child porn on their servers

Reply to Agnosticsherbet (Reply #1)

Tue Apr 26, 2016, 06:29 PM

Apr 2016

that they can on occasional put up on the screen?

Punkingal

(9,522 posts)

9. No, it happened.

Reply to Agnosticsherbet (Reply #1)

Tue Apr 26, 2016, 06:37 PM

Apr 2016

https://www.facebook.com/groups/bros4hillary/permalink/1740610886160594/

athena

(4,187 posts)

2. This has been debunked.

Reply to KamaAina (Original post)

Tue Apr 26, 2016, 06:16 PM

Apr 2016

Maedhros

(10,007 posts)

12. How?

Reply to athena (Reply #2)

Tue Apr 26, 2016, 06:48 PM

Apr 2016

Do you have details?

athena

(4,187 posts)

14. I guess you ignored the other posts about this?

Reply to Maedhros (Reply #12)

Tue Apr 26, 2016, 06:50 PM

Apr 2016

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/04/26/an-elaborate-hillary-clinton-facebook-conspiracy-with-coordinated-attacks-and-porn-no-just-a-glitch.html

Theories on Sanders’s primary subreddit and Facebook pages quickly popped up, accusing Hillary Clinton supporters of a coordinated effort with a SuperPAC to report the Sanders pages for threats of violence and child pornography until the pages went down.

Some news organizations appeared to back some of the theories.

...

But Facebook—and now even the affected pro-Sanders groups themselves—say that the real problem was merely a database error that affected more pages than just Sanders-leaning community pages.

Maedhros

(10,007 posts)

15. I had not seen the other posts.

Reply to athena (Reply #14)

Tue Apr 26, 2016, 06:54 PM

Apr 2016

Thank you!

Kalidurga

(14,177 posts)

3. I saw somewhere one of the attackers is a Hillary superdelegate

Reply to KamaAina (Original post)

Tue Apr 26, 2016, 06:18 PM

Apr 2016

I might feel like looking around for the poster who had a screenie of the name of that delegate, but right now I don't feel like it plus I am just getting around to reading on this issue it's gonna be a while before I am comfortable with the preponderance of evidence. But, right now it's not looking good. It really does look like a slimy tactic employed by Clintonistas.

metroins

(2,550 posts)

4. Nope

Reply to KamaAina (Original post)

Tue Apr 26, 2016, 06:18 PM

Apr 2016

Agschmid

(28,749 posts)

5. Mostly false.

Reply to KamaAina (Original post)

Tue Apr 26, 2016, 06:18 PM

Apr 2016

scscholar

(2,902 posts)

6. Break the rules,...

Reply to KamaAina (Original post)

Tue Apr 26, 2016, 06:23 PM

Apr 2016

expect to get banned. Facebook doesn't allow porn.

OilemFirchen

(7,143 posts)

8. I LOVE the idea of a Facebook "eyewitness"!

Reply to KamaAina (Original post)

Tue Apr 26, 2016, 06:34 PM

Apr 2016

If there were only a way to capture what that person is seeing...

Warren DeMontague

(80,708 posts)

11. And yet the one post that claims it was "just a glitch" is taken as gospel truth.

Reply to OilemFirchen (Reply #8)

Tue Apr 26, 2016, 06:39 PM

Apr 2016

I also can't imagine why people seeing, say, kiddie porn on their screens didn't immediately think "oh gee there's something I'd love to save to my hard drive"

OilemFirchen

(7,143 posts)

13. Yeah, well...

Reply to Warren DeMontague (Reply #11)

Tue Apr 26, 2016, 06:48 PM

Apr 2016

except that the post to which you refer cites a Facebook rep and admins of several "attacked" groups.

This post cites "eyewitness reports". And, while it tangentially mentions kiddie porn, the gist of the article refers simply to "porn".

With the dozens of screen captures thus far offered as evidence, no one in all of Facebookdom thought to catch one of these?

Okay then!

Warren DeMontague

(80,708 posts)

16. We'll see, I guess. I mean, due to the drug war which is enabled by some of "our" leadership

Reply to OilemFirchen (Reply #13)

Tue Apr 26, 2016, 06:58 PM

Apr 2016

we already know the FBI and other LEOs monitor FB to catch people for dangerous crimes like, ah, marijuana use.

So they'll probably be able to get to the bottom of this if anything genuinely illegal went down, I suspect.

beerandjesus

(1,301 posts)

10. Just another "accident" that benefits Hillary

Reply to KamaAina (Original post)

Tue Apr 26, 2016, 06:39 PM

Apr 2016

Like all the others......

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