2016 Postmortem

pnwmom

(108,980 posts) Wed Apr 27, 2016, 12:33 AM Apr 2016

Snopes: Sanders campaign has discounted the rumors of FB hacking [View all]

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:

All of the groups are back up and it wasn't just Bernie groups.

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.

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Snopes: Sanders campaign has discounted the rumors of FB hacking [View all] pnwmom Apr 2016 OP

uh oh, now you've done it. another balloon goes pfffffft! nt msongs Apr 2016 #1

it's all a game to some GreatGazoo Apr 2016 #36

I tried to urge people not to jump to conclusions... moriah Apr 2016 #2

The next one will be along any moment. betsuni Apr 2016 #3

He wrote the book Blinded by the Right, apologizing for his role in attacking Anita Hill pnwmom Apr 2016 #4

Oh, okay, I've read "Blinded by the Right." betsuni Apr 2016 #7

Right. He switched sides before he wrote that book. n/t pnwmom Apr 2016 #15

I'm still on the fence about him character-wise, but... moriah Apr 2016 #21

Remember the McMartin Preschool trial? ucrdem Apr 2016 #5

It goes all the way back to the Salem witch trials. pnwmom Apr 2016 #6

The idea that a widely-publicized outreach initiative would launch a porn attack on FB is so inane ucrdem Apr 2016 #24

Yeah, ok. "Facebook hasn't confirmed King's assertion, nilram Apr 2016 #8

What possible interest would the Sanders campaign have in discounting the rumors pnwmom Apr 2016 #9

I look forward to Facebook's statement. nilram Apr 2016 #11

What possible insight would the Sanders campaign have in making this determination? frylock Apr 2016 #27

I see people here appeal to Sanders veracity all the time. And use it to support pnwmom Apr 2016 #30

On topics of which he is knowlegable. frylock Apr 2016 #32

yet strangley no Hillary groups were closed down and we haven't heard anything about these 'other' azurnoir Apr 2016 #10

And how do you know that? Just because they didn't rise up in hysterical fury? n/t pnwmom Apr 2016 #12

Then what other groups were shut down? why aren't they being named azurnoir Apr 2016 #13

Aiden King of the Sanders campaign says it affected other groups. Are you calling him a liar? pnwmom Apr 2016 #14

why are you deflecting? King is a sub-reddit moderator nothing more who has raised money for Sanders azurnoir Apr 2016 #16

I'm not deflecting, you are. There is no evidence that Sanders groups were singled out. pnwmom Apr 2016 #17

there's no evidence of any other group being shut down save the word of of a sub reddit moderator azurnoir Apr 2016 #18

He's a lot more than that. pnwmom Apr 2016 #19

ya he raised money for Sanders I already said but he's not a campaign official azurnoir Apr 2016 #20

Snopes disagrees with you. I'll accept Snopes's opinion on that. pnwmom Apr 2016 #22

And you keep circling back to Aiden King's statement. frylock Apr 2016 #28

I don't know. But I accept that he represents Sanders and the campaign believes that to be true. pnwmom Apr 2016 #29

So see no reason to believe otherwise despite the screenshots.. frylock Apr 2016 #31

I guess Brock's magical $1 million can even buy off Snopes! ContinentalOp Apr 2016 #23

K&R lamp_shade Apr 2016 #25

A lot of jumping to conclusions and with CT near the top of reasoning it prevents Thinkingabout Apr 2016 #26

K&R mcar Apr 2016 #33

You bolded the wrong part btw... northernsouthern Apr 2016 #34

Good information nolawarlock Apr 2016 #35