Half a dozen pro-Bernie Sanders Facebook groups suddenly went dark Monday, prompting a flood of conspiracy theories that the sites had been targeted in an act of political dirty pool.
The groups — including Bernie Believers, Bernie Sanders is my HERO and Bernie Sanders or Bust — are accessible today, the apparent casualty of a non-partisan glitch.
The temporary outage, though, prompted a flood of theories on Reddit, ascribing sinister or partisan motives on the part of Facebook or the Vermont Senator’s rival, Hillary Clinton.
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But Facebook told technology site Recode that the outages were actually due to a glitch in its systems. “A number of groups were inaccessible for a brief period after one of our automated policies was applied incorrectly. We corrected the problem within hours and are working to improve our tools.”
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I think an apology is due to all the people that were blamed by the Sanders groups on DKOS for blaming Hillary Clinton, David Brock and and various Hillary Clinton support groups. The accusations were personal and nasty in a lot of posts and now that the facts of why the Facebook suspensions have been revealed, its time for those who did the attacking to apologize and admit that they shouldn't have blamed people without the proper facts or evidence to do so. It’s a lesson in life.