Bernie Sanders Campaign Faced A Fake News Tsunami - now urging Sanders to run in 2020

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6. The bots and the trolls knew how to target their audience.

Had people I knew IRL on my FB feed gushing over this great new site that "tells the truth about Bernie and Hillary!"

What was it? RT.

That's actually how I found out about RT, a friend had posted an article and I was verifying the source, and it was Russia Today, a direct propaganda site run by Putin.

The timelines of those RT personalities, speaks volumes about where many of these people seeking soothing reinforcement of their false beliefs chose to go to, and explains many of their current actions.

Much of that hue and cry raised last weekend, prior to the book's release was in oddly accented and stilted English from many new accounts with fake avatars and number strings in their handles.

The new tactic seems to be using pictures of black men and women in their avatars to hide behind obvious racism and misogyny. You keep seeing it happen. They get very upset when they are called out.