2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumSnopes: Sanders campaign has discounted the rumors of FB hacking
attacking Sanders groups.
Is there any limit to the paranoia around Hillary? I mean, Facebook. Seriously?
http://www.snopes.com/2016/04/26/bernie-sanders-facebook-groups-controversy/
On 26 April 2016, digital and social media manager for the Sanders campaign Aiden King addressed the rumors on the campaign's official Slack channel:
Facebook hasn't released a public statement but they had a bug and it closed a ton of facebook groups. Our supporters are just more vocal so the internet blew up with "Bernie groups being shut down" rather than "Facebook groups are being shut down."
King claimed a number of groups were affected by a Facebook-side glitch, not solely Sanders groups. However, Facebook didn't address the bug in question officially, leading many to believe the outages were politically motivated and not related to malfunctioning technology. Facebook hasn't confirmed King's assertion, nor did he disclose how he learned of the purported bug.
msongs
(67,502 posts)GreatGazoo
(3,937 posts)moriah
(8,311 posts)... but the game might sell well now.
betsuni
(25,815 posts)I still don't know who David Brock is and why people keep bringing up his name like he has special powers (a warlock? minor deity?) and I DON'T CARE.
pnwmom
(109,025 posts)in the Clarence Thomas hearings.
betsuni
(25,815 posts)I thought it must be someone else because I've seen him described as a Republican. Makes sense. The way the same people call Clinton a "Goldwater Girl."
pnwmom
(109,025 posts)moriah
(8,311 posts).... if anyone knows GOP dirty tricks, I guess he's the guy....
I am optimistic that anyone can change and realize they're wrong. I hope he's sincere. But I do understand why some wonder about motivations of turncoats.
ucrdem
(15,512 posts)That's what this is starting to remind me of. It's really sad to see the lengths some will take their self-delusions.
pnwmom
(109,025 posts)This level of witch-inspired paranoia.
ucrdem
(15,512 posts)not to mention criminal if it involved minors and yet a good portion of posters seem firmly convinced that such a thing occurred because some unknown person posted a screenshot of some unknown person's wisecrack on some unknown person's FB page.
We're talking seriously out of touch.
nilram
(2,895 posts)nor did he disclose how he learned of the purported bug."
pnwmom
(109,025 posts)that people had attacked the Sanders' groups, except for being truthful?
nilram
(2,895 posts)frylock
(34,825 posts)We don't go in for appeals to authority. That's your team.
pnwmom
(109,025 posts)whatever he has said.
frylock
(34,825 posts)azurnoir
(45,850 posts)groups either-curious that
pnwmom
(109,025 posts)azurnoir
(45,850 posts)pnwmom
(109,025 posts)And what possible motivation could he have for lying about that?
azurnoir
(45,850 posts)not to mention the Sanders campaign wanted to move on from Brock brokered mudslinging that is going on to stuff like issues
pnwmom
(109,025 posts)Just a bunch of semi-hysterical posts.
As if FACEBOOK, of all places, is critical to Bernie's success. If it was, no wonder he's been losing.
azurnoir
(45,850 posts)pnwmom
(109,025 posts)azurnoir
(45,850 posts)pnwmom
(109,025 posts)On 26 April 2016, digital and social media manager for the Sanders campaign Aiden King addressed the rumors on the campaign's official Slack channel.
frylock
(34,825 posts)What other groups were effected?
pnwmom
(109,025 posts)And I see no reason to believe otherwise, except for paranoia.
Facebook. We're talking about Facebook. Do you really think Facebook was a key piece of Bernie's campaign? What a stupid waste of resources taking down a few sites on FB would be.
frylock
(34,825 posts)of people bragging about doing it?
ContinentalOp
(5,356 posts)lamp_shade
(14,853 posts)Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)Reasonable conclusion. Cognitive dissonance at its best.
northernsouthern
(1,511 posts)...very selective...
FB basically said it was related to the flagging process, which is tech for they don't have a good enough bot set up to identify people abusing the system to flag people on this scale...it is called PR.
Also these is a photo of the actual guy doing it, taken by the HRC group memeber and then posting it on the HRC group...
nolawarlock
(1,729 posts)You wrote: "FB basically said it was related to the flagging process, which is tech for they don't have a good enough bot set up to identify people abusing the system to flag people on this scale"
Sounds like our jury system here.