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Bernie Sanders' Campaign Faced A Fake News Tsunami. Where Did It Come From?
The trolls set out to distract and divide the invigorated left.
By
Ryan Grim
and
Jason Cherkis
Mar. 11, 2017, 01:54 PM EST | Updated Mar. 13, 2017
Open Image ModalFacebook groups backing Sen. Bernie Sanders were slammed with fake news links last year.
Facebook groups backing Sen. Bernie Sanders were slammed with fake news links last year.SAUL LOEB/AFP/GETTY IMAGES
WASHINGTON ― Last June, John Mattes started noticing something coursing like a virus through the Facebook page he helped administer for Bernie Sanders fans in San Diego. People with no apparent ties to California were friending the page and sharing links from unfamiliar sites full of anti-Hillary Clinton propaganda.
The stories they posted weren’t the normal complaints he was used to seeing as the Vermont senator and the former secretary of state fought out the Democratic presidential primary. These stories alleged that Clinton had murdered her political opponents and used body doubles.

Post the link when you copy someone's words.
 
Honestly, one of the worst things you have ever posted.

Is it not true? So you mean White people snuck in under the cover of night and picked North America up and hauled it off? :laugh: No...they kicked the indians asses , threw them on reservations ,and TOOK IT BY FORCE. Why lie?
 
By late October, Mattes said he’d traced 40 percent of the domain registrations for the fake news sites he saw popping up on pro-Sanders pages back to Eastern Europe. Others appeared to be based in Panama and the U.S., or were untraceable. He wondered, “Am I the only person that sees all this crap floating through these Bernie pages?”
 
Is it not true? So you mean White people snuck in under the cover of night and picked North America up and hauled it off? :laugh: No...they kicked the indians asses , threw them on reservations ,and TOOK IT BY FORCE. Why lie?

That's actually stomach-churning.

Warped.
 
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Bernie Sanders' Campaign Faced A Fake News Tsunami. Where Did It Come From?
The trolls set out to distract and divide the invigorated left.
By
Ryan Grim
and
Jason Cherkis
Mar. 11, 2017, 01:54 PM EST | Updated Mar. 13, 2017


Mattes, 66, had been a television reporter and Senate investigator in previous lives. He put his expertise in unmasking fraudsters to work. At first, he suspected that the sites were created by the old Clinton haters from the ‘90s ― what Hillary Clinton had dubbed “the vast right-wing conspiracy.”
But when Mattes started tracking down the sites’ domain registrations, the trail led to Macedonia and Albania. In mid-September, he emailed a few of his private investigator friends with a list of the sites. “Very creepy and i do not think Koch brothers,” he wrote.
 
I am calling Mueller's report thorough. You posted no statement from the FBI.

Produce where they said Russians didn’t climb all over the sanders campaig


Sanders got fooled by Russians



This guy Mattes was a Bernie guy


He warned the FBI and Sanders about it



FACT
 
By late October, Mattes said he’d traced 40 percent of the domain registrations for the fake news sites he saw popping up on pro-Sanders pages back to Eastern Europe. Others appeared to be based in Panama and the U.S., or were untraceable. He wondered, “Am I the only person that sees all this crap floating through these Bernie pages?”

No source, no truth.
 
Bernie supporters across the country had been noticing dubious websites and posters linked back to Eastern Europe long before Mattes did ― and even before The Washington Post reported in mid-June that Russian government hackers had stolen emails from the Democratic National Committee. They had been warning each other that something weird was going on, posting troll alerts and compiling lists of fake news sites.
 
On the Sanders campaign, it was Hector Sigala’s job to connect with all the organic Facebook groups. He recalled seeing “a lot of trolls” try to convince people of something “that was obviously fake.”
Many of the interlopers, Sigala said, claimed to be Sanders fans who had decided to vote for GOP nominee Donald Trump or Green Party candidate Jill Stein in the general election and tried to convince others to do likewise. “It made it seem like the community as a whole was supporting that, but that wasn’t the case,” he said.
 
That's actually stomach-churning.

Warped.

Its called world history kid. The same thing has happened to EVERY culture on Earth in every corner of the Earth. Everyone takes their turn as the conqueror and the conquered. Denying it is silly..
 




The Sanders campaign had begun seeing this particular brand of fake news starting in early 2016. “The first time that we kind of fell for it, for like two minutes, was this link from what seemed to be ABC News,” Sigala said. It turned out to be ABC.com.co, a fake site that has no affiliation with the real news network. It had “reported” that the pope himself had endorsed Sanders.
“It came in like a wave, like a tsunami. It was like a flood of misinformation.”
 
:laugh: Meowr!

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