Snopes: Sanders campaign has discounted the rumors of FB hacking

[pnwmom]

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.

[msongs]

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

[GreatGazoo]

36. it's all a game to some

[moriah]

2. I tried to urge people not to jump to conclusions...

... but the game might sell well now.

[betsuni]

3. The next one will be along any moment.

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]

4. He wrote the book Blinded by the Right, apologizing for his role in attacking Anita Hill

in the Clarence Thomas hearings.

[betsuni]

7. Oh, okay, I've read "Blinded by the Right."

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]

15. Right. He switched sides before he wrote that book. n/t

[moriah]

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

.... 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]

5. Remember the McMartin Preschool trial?

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]

6. It goes all the way back to the Salem witch trials.

This level of witch-inspired paranoia.

[ucrdem]

24. The idea that a widely-publicized outreach initiative would launch a porn attack on FB is so inane

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]

8. Yeah, ok. "Facebook hasn't confirmed King's assertion,

nor did he disclose how he learned of the purported bug."

[pnwmom]

9. What possible interest would the Sanders campaign have in discounting the rumors

that people had attacked the Sanders' groups, except for being truthful?

[nilram]

11. I look forward to Facebook's statement.

[frylock]

27. What possible insight would the Sanders campaign have in making this determination?

We don't go in for appeals to authority. That's your team.

[pnwmom]

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

whatever he has said.

[frylock]

32. On topics of which he is knowlegable.

[azurnoir]

10. yet strangley no Hillary groups were closed down and we haven't heard anything about these 'other'

groups either-curious that

[pnwmom]

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

[azurnoir]

13. Then what other groups were shut down? why aren't they being named

[pnwmom]

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

And what possible motivation could he have for lying about that?

[azurnoir]

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

not to mention the Sanders campaign wanted to move on from Brock brokered mudslinging that is going on to stuff like issues

[pnwmom]

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

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]

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

[pnwmom]

19. He's a lot more than that.

http://www.thenation.com/article/these-people-are-the-secret-to-bernie-sanderss-success/#

[azurnoir]

20. ya he raised money for Sanders I already said but he's not a campaign official

[pnwmom]

22. Snopes disagrees with you. I'll accept Snopes's opinion on that.

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.

[frylock]

28. And you keep circling back to Aiden King's statement.

What other groups were effected?

[pnwmom]

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

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]

31. So see no reason to believe otherwise despite the screenshots..

of people bragging about doing it?

[ContinentalOp]

23. I guess Brock's magical $1 million can even buy off Snopes!

[lamp_shade]

25. K&R

[Thinkingabout]

26. A lot of jumping to conclusions and with CT near the top of reasoning it prevents

Reasonable conclusion. Cognitive dissonance at its best.

[mcar]

33. K&R

[northernsouthern]

34. You bolded the wrong part btw...

...very selective...

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.

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]

35. Good information

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.