I am, I’ve voted Democratic in every single election and I joined here in 2004, leading up to the Kerry campaign.
Sure.
Anywho … here’s more about the pro-Clinton group shutting down Bernie sites:
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.
The attack began around 9 p.m. EDT and lasted until just after midnight, when most of the pages recovered their accounts.
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"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.”
Also, this, from Salon -
It has been confirmed that least some of the attacks originated from a rival Facebook group of Clinton supporters but a Facebook bug may also have played a part. Trolls carried out the attack by posting pornographic images and then reporting the content to Facebook admins. Some Bernie supporters even reported seeing images containing pedophilia, according to Heavy.com .
Erica Libenow, a Sanders supporter and member of one of the pro-Bernie groups, told US Uncut, “We had what looked like a kiddie porn posted in one of our groups today. I reported that one. Seriously made me want to vomit.”
Sanders supporters took to Reddit to post concerns about whether there was a connection to PACs supporting Clinton. And at least one Facebook user who defines as a Hillary supporter, Casey Champagne, bragged about taking down the pages in the pro-Clinton group BROS 4 HILLARY – #GiveEmHill . The pro-Clinton page was briefly taken down, but restored again on Tuesday.
Bros4Hillary issued a statement on their website Tuesday afternoon stating that it acknowledged that a rogue former member of their organization, by the name of Casey Champagne, was at least partly responsible for engaging in the attack on the pro-Sanders group.
Note: that’s not really a bug on Facebook’s end. The system was working as it was designed to work. That social groups have figured out how to weaponize this is just one the many delightful fallouts from #gamergate .
Hillary Clinton and David Brock’s group, “Correct the Record”, denied any direct involvement. But it’s still the sort of thing that’s not helpful for Hillary’s attempts to reach Sanders supporters. See here, for example:
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That said, even if last night had nothing to do with David Brock, Correct The Record, or Hillary Clinton’s campaign, it was still supporters of the former Secretary of State who carried out the assault. Such an affront to the free sharing of information on the internet is indicative of an increasingly hostile Clinton camp that has, for too long, gotten a pass by a mainstream media fixated on “Bernie Bros.” This incident marks the first time in this Democratic primary where these tactics have been used, and puts the lie to the idea that the dirtiest players online are Sanders supporters. In fact, it is the single largest online attack by supporters of one Democratic candidate against supporters of the other in 2016.
Hillary’s willing to play rough, which is a good thing, overall. But if she’s smart, her campaign (including proxy members like David Brock) will steer well clear of this shit.
DrDeth
April 26, 2016, 9:57pm
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There’s absolutely no evidence that supports of Clinton carried out any “attacks”. Yes, one Clinton FB supporter admitted proudly he were reporting FB posts. Big Deal.
Lies & allegations. Nothing whatsoever to show that anything organized by the Clinton campaign had anything to do with this, and they wouldn’t do it anyway- too damn obvious and calculated to rile up the Sandernistas.
Nothing to gain, a lot to lose.
I suspect Karl Rove, myself.
DrDeth:
There’s absolutely no evidence that supports of Clinton carried out any “attacks”. Yes, one Clinton FB supporter admitted proudly he were reporting FB posts. Big Deal.
Lies & allegations. Nothing whatsoever to show that anything organized by the Clinton campaign had anything to do with this, and they wouldn’t do it anyway- too damn obvious and calculated to rile up the Sandernistas.
Nothing to gain, a lot to lose.
I suspect Karl Rove, myself.
Facebook has reported that a lot of sites went down for a few hours, and that the Bernie Facebook sites were very tiny part of that. Once again, we see an annoying level of hysteria…
He’s Just Asking Questions!
That’s counter -trolling. :dubious: