2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumThere are several post contending that the Sanders facebook blocks were caused by the Clinton camp
Here's a link to Facebook's explanation of what happened. Seems it was a technical glitch, not caused by "Hillary", that affected many other pages as well.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/apr/27/facebook-bernie-sanders-groups
mikehiggins
(5,614 posts)SFnomad
(3,473 posts)Because if they didn't, they'd have to face the reality that people that voted in the primaries have spoken ... and that those people preferred Secretary Clinton to Bernie Sanders.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)SFnomad
(3,473 posts)And the BS cheerleaders around here should quit being tools of the Republican Party.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)The "glitch" we keep hearing about was one in facebook's automated response to bogus complaints such as "casey champaign"'s.
There was no "violence promoting". Try again.
SFnomad
(3,473 posts)The image you posted stated (about as clearly as it could) that a BS thread was removed for "containing credible threat of violence". Or it was a glitch. Either way, you'll keep up with your conspiracies that BS was targeted.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)They admit, here, that they pull this shit all the time- bogus alerts- but due to the "facebook glitch" they got the groups shut down without verification of actual "credible threats of violence". ("LOL. 'CREDIBLE' " That was the glitch, the automated system didn't do the normal due diligence.
If you have proof of an actual "credible threat of violence" on the Sanders FB group (odd that 'Casey Champagne', who seems perfectly capable of performing a screen cap, hasn't posted evidence of it) I'll gladly admit I'm wrong. But I'm not.
SFnomad
(3,473 posts)All I can say is that BS cheerleaders have one conspiracy theory after another ... many (if not most) have been disproven, which makes the next one harder to believe. To listen to you people, you'd think you're the most persecuted people anywhere, though maybe Christians believe they are even more persecuted.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Dude admitted what he did, "Bros4Hillary" disavowed him and apologized, etc.
"Most persecuted people anywhere"? Thats fucking rich, coming from the camp that has tried for 8 months to make some goofy victimization/vindication narrative "berniebrooooos! Sanders supporters did this!" Somehow more crucial to picking the next leader of the free world than, oh, say, ACTUAL FUCKING ISSUES AND POLICIES.
GreatGazoo
(3,937 posts)and here he is with you know who:
frylock
(34,825 posts)I love my cousin.
Wilms
(26,795 posts)As opposed to a non-technical one?
brush
(53,778 posts)It used to "thanks, Obama", now it seems to be, "Blame Hillary".
Wilms
(26,795 posts)A supporter or more of hers may have been happy to do something, but she can't handle email let alone hack FB.
Next:
That didn't answer a damn thing.
Dragonfli
(10,622 posts)A number of groups were inaccessible for a brief period after one of our automated policies was applied incorrectly"
refers to the automatic program that bring down sites after multiple alerts are received in a row, the tactic the brock socks bragged about sing because they are aware of the feature, "incorrectly" refers to it never being intended to be exploited by malicious tolls.
Much like our automatic flagging for review that is triggered by the software after alerts happen too closely together in time here, it is essentially the same function and was known of and abused to take down those sites much as such tactics are used to trigger the software here to flag a poster for review automatically via a software feature.
OP mega fail.
brush
(53,778 posts)It used to "thanks, Obama", now it seems to be, "Blame Hillary".
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)The glitch meant that the spamming shut the groups down easier than it should have. The spamming which activated the "glitch" still came from somewhere. Hmmm, I wonder where.
"we removed the group you reported"
paid by who? Is David Brock's ("Correct The Record" "Barrier Breakers" million dollars used up, yet?
Dragonfli
(10,622 posts)Wilms
(26,795 posts)It's a sorry state of affairs the way we have to clean-up the messes left all over the internet.
La Lioness Priyanka
(53,866 posts)Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Autumn
(45,084 posts)Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Someone was dumb enough to brag about it publicly.
Autumn
(45,084 posts)the shots that proved he did it. Those little trolls don't think things through very well do they.
spinbaby
(15,090 posts)This primary season has been beset by endless "glitches" and "irregularities," all of them somehow benefitting Hillary.
JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)frylock
(34,825 posts)Warren explains it perfectly. There was no "glitch". The logic worked exactly as it was coded to work.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)It's possible they've been trying this crap continuously from the moment Brock's troll $ started flowing, but it just worked a lot better the other night due to a facebook error.
frylock
(34,825 posts)But we all know that Hillarians suffer from an aversion to documented facts.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)being an annoyance, but I do have people close to me who were complaining about it at the time.
However, if the Hill Folk want to run around yammering about "tinfoil!" and "oh those stupid berniebros thinking Hillary supporters targeted their facebook groups", yeah, documented like you said.
Plus it kind of makes the endless garbage we hear about how Sanders people are THE WORST INTERNETZ TROLLZ N BULLIEZ EVER a little hypocritical, no?