An Elaborate Hillary Clinton Facebook Conspiracy With Coordinated Attacks and Porn? No, Just a Glitc

[Beacool]

Users on Facebook, Reddit, and Twitter accused Hillary Clinton supporters—and one super PAC—of a coordinated attack to shut down Bernie Sanders fan pages. None of it was true.

Supporters of Bernie Sanders took to Facebook, Reddit, and Twitter late Monday night after five of their Facebook community pages—with tens of thousands of members—went dark the night before five Democratic party primaries.

Theories on Sanders’s primary subreddit and Facebook pages quickly popped up, accusing Hillary Clinton supporters of a coordinated effort with a SuperPAC to report the Sanders pages for threats of violence and child pornography until the pages went down.

Some news organizations appeared to back some of the theories. Paste Magazine headlined one story, “Clinton’s Internet Supporters, Allegedly Using Pornography, Shut Down Bernie Sanders’ Largest Facebook Groups in Coordinated Attack.” Salon joined in, too, pointing to a “mystery over booted Bernie Sanders Facebook groups.”

“At least some of the attacks originated from a rival Facebook group of Clinton supporters, reports say,” the Salon story reads.

But Facebook—and now even the affected pro-Sanders groups themselves—say that the real problem was merely a database error that affected more pages than just Sanders-leaning community pages.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/04/26/an-elaborate-hillary-clinton-facebook-conspiracy-with-coordinated-attacks-and-porn-no-just-a-glitch.html

Well, there goes another conspiracy theory down the drain.

[tularetom]

1. The Daily Beast is owned by IAC. Chelsea Clinton is on the Board of Directors of IAC

[Beacool]

6. Sigh..........

Some of you have a tin foil hat firmly in place, right? Everything is a bloody conspiracy.

[tularetom]

8. I merely pointed out a fact

You're the one who's whining about conspiracies.

[Beacool]

9. You only had to click on the link.

https://www.facebook.com/PeopleForBernie/posts/1790823541137852

[anigbrowl]

12. An utterly irrelevant fact, since it was reported by numerous news outlets

Don't be so fucking disingenuous, you chose to point out a fact that was likely to reflect on the credibility of the story. How stupid do you think we are?

[Lucinda]

2. The Chicken Little election. Only with no sky ever actually falling. n/t

[DURHAM D]

3. Is paranoia nurture or nature? nt

[Beacool]

7. I don't know, good question.

[CorkySt.Clair]

4. One down the drain and in post 1 another is born

[Dem2]

5. Yep no conspiracy theory has ever died

[frylock]

10. Yeah, I mean, nevermind the screenshots of people copping to it.

It was just a "glitch".

[think]

13. Yep. Someone already took the fall .

[blackspade]

11. And none of this word salad actually explains the 'glitch'

An actual reporter would have actually looked into what the glitch was, how many pages were effected, what types of pages were effected, and what was done to correct the 'glitch.'

Without this information this 'story' is speculation at best.

[anigbrowl]

14. Easily available in other news reports

The Guardian observed that several groups favoring a candidate in the Filipino presidential election were also affected, and quoted a Facebook staffer's technical explanation. I feel sure you can find the relevant article by using a search engine, like I did.