Trump Trolls are mass alerting on FB posters who criticize him.

[nolabear]

I happen to be FB friends with Kevin Sessums, a well known writer who was editor of Vanity Fair at one time. Kevin has been outspoken in his criticism of that man and his minions. Suddenly he was banned for 24 hours, then reinstated. Now people who are in support of him and also critical of the incoming fascist and his minions appear to be being mass alerted on in an attempt to get them banned.

I don't know if this is coordinated or a bunch of dedicated assholes but it's going to be ubiquitous I expect. We need to fight this by not being timid in our criticism. They can only do so much when we are united.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2016/12/30/facebook-scrubs-then-restores-post-that-called-trump-supporters-fascists/?utm_term=.ecebc1e871b7

[RBInMaine]

1. Oh piss on them. Who gives a flying shit what they alert on. They can go fuck themselves.

[nolabear]

3. The people who are being threatened with being banned care.

Quite a few people use FB as a platform for their professional work. It's easy to say they can go fuck themselves but in reality no self-fucking will occur and they are doing harm.

[MFM008]

14. if they are targeted

then another venue may be needed.
Those determined to get someone kicked off will keep it up.

[hrmjustin]

2. I only use fb for people I know.

I use twitter for politics.

[nolabear]

4. Can happen there just as easily.

[hrmjustin]

8. True. On twitter the trolls actually band together to harass certain members.

This is why I block conservatives when they engage me on twitter. I don't trust them.

[gwheezie]

5. Same here

Family & handful of friends on FB. I let loose on Twitter.

[sellitman]

37. Same here

For the most part.

[charlyvi]

6. Trump's Brownshirts

won't be successful in getting anyone permanently banned from FB. Not unless Zuckerberg becomes a fascist. Was Sessums given a reason why he was banned?

[nolabear]

11. He was alerted on as being abusive. He said nothing personally to anyone.

I think FB will straighten this stuff out somehow but we all know it's algorithmical and there aren't people monitoring everything. It'll take some real tweaking.

[charlyvi]

19. I hope the tweak includes banning those

who habitually report abuse vis a vis Trump. Sounds like the only abuse is on the part of Trump's alt right assholes.

[Crash2Parties]

13. It is amazing how suddenly Z found religion just as Pence & friends got in power...

[Missn-Hitch]

21. I know. Even though it's some kind of a'la carte deism. Yawn.

[Matthew28]

7. Wow,

They sure like to attack Obama but can't stand the heat themselves...I'll keep attacking and will do so far more now that I know that they don't like it. whiny babies.

[flamingdem]

9. Facebook should use this as an opportunity to see

who the trolls are - and deal with them.

[Initech]

10. I've been alerting Trump trolls on Twitter left and right for the shit they've been posting.

[nolabear]

12. Good! Maybe they'll all get book deals now.

Sorry...I'm still pissed about that Simon & Schuster deal.

[Initech]

15. Milo Yiannopolous writing a book on free speech.

That would be like Bill Maher writing a book on religion.

[elmac]

16. Well, seems like Putins paid troll army is still at work

last heard he has hundreds, each with about 100 accounts. He will be using them to help his agent when needed.

[Ilsa]

17. The local dude carrying posters

whining about Hillary, etc, claims Fb is censoring conservative viewpoints.

If only.

[Equinox Moon]

18. We far outnumber his trolls

[Cooley Hurd]

20. If the OP's true, this will spell the end of Facebag....

[DK504]

22. Oh noes.....

They will unfriend me? 😄 LOL I'm crushed.

[milestogo]

23. So screw Facebook and screw Zuckerberg.

[MRDAWG]

24. Brownshirts went into State Department and .................

said "There is a new sheriff in town". This was repeated on George Stephanopoulos today.

[certainot]

25. ask netrumpers if they agree with limbaugh wanting to end net neutrality

when their internet trolls get in your face

here was limbaugh nov 29, doing the prepwork for ending net neutrality

And while net neutrality may not be front and center today, it's going to be once Trump's inaugurated and his FCC starts fixing the things Obama broke.

he wouldn't stick his neck out on that if they weren't going to do it.

Net neutrality is a big deal to the left because it puts the government in charge of the internet. It puts the government in charge of content. It lets the government choose what you can watch and what you can't watch and what you pay for it. And that's bogus. In the name of competition, they want to take competition away from the net. They're leftists. They lie to you about what they want to do.

he's selling it to the trump base the same way they sold media deregulation in the 90's and turning healthcare over to insurance cos, privatizing education, electronic voting machines, etc - it will cost less and it's the opposite of what liberals want t so it must be good

in the typical limbaugh reverse world net neutrality gives big (read liberal) govt the ability to control it, so give it to the big monopoly corporations

[Lee-Lee]

26. Not a new tactic, anti-gun activists have been doing it for years

I always wondered when it would get turned around on us.

[Kingofalldems]

27. Really? Evidence?

[MADem]

28. Straight outta Moscow, bay-bee!

Rich kid Zuckerberg better get his team on this, and require a lot more vetting of the accounts that are trying to shut people down--that stuff goes both ways.

[kimbutgar]

29. I notice they troll the anti thump pages and I block them and report to the page administrator

I guess they got nothing better to do. They should stay on their own pages. Nothing is going to ever convince me to accept the POS. And I would never go into their den of lies.

[Greybnk48]

30. I was recently (11 days ago) banned for one month

and the only thing I was posting was news about Trump from DU, WaPo and the Times (maybe a few others). They won't tell me why I was banned. I have sent four requests and nothing.

[abbeyco]

31. They really are - I had a FB battle on Dec.

Went to Comet Pizza after the shooting & posted a great review and how it WASN'T what the booger-eaters said it was. Went many rounds to get garbage posts & fake news removed from stalkers that I don't even know.
Being conscious and diligent helps but there's an army of losers out there to react upon any negative alt-white post.

[treestar]

32. there is so much criticism of Orange Hitler on FB

that they really don't have much hope of making a dent.

[tavernier]

33. They post a cartoon picture of Obama

crying like a baby, and then when anyone criticizes, they tell them they know where they live and they will come and kill them.
Absolutely true. I wrote an original post on DU about it on Saturday. The post sunk, but since then the FB responders to mr. nazi have turned him in for his death threats. He still has not shut up, and I'm waiting to see if anything will come of it.

[nolabear]

34. One reason I posted the OP was fascination about how much is behind the scenes.

I'm in favor of dragging it out into the light but the variations on the theme of vandalism and mob behavior, even when people we are in favor of do it, is pretty remarkable. And uncontrolled it can be, well, uncontrolled.

[jimlup]

35. WHat the hell is wrong with these people and why are there so damn many of them?

Is this much bigger and more nefarious than anyone currently recognizes? Seriously, I know it sounds flipped out crazy but are these people on Putin's payroll? God, I'm sounding like the Deluded Orange Baboon King.

[inwiththenew]

38. He has an army of internet trolls

They've been active since the primary. I can remember them organizing to try and get the Ted Cruz mistress story trending on twitter.

[Mc Mike]

36. The delicate nazi snowflakes need a safe space, or they'll cry. r, Nt