WaPo: Russia paid for Facebook ads encouraging Bernie supporters not to vote last November

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61. And three of my friends who voted for Bernie in the primaries opted not to vote for Hillary.

Out of the four of us, I was the lone friend who voted for Bernie in the primaries and Hillary in the General. I tried hard to convince my friends to please vote for Hillary, but I was not able to convince them not to vote for Stein (in two cases) and Johnson (the third case).

They kept insisting that Sanders was "robbed" by the DNC. They watched The Young Turks, or at least two of them did, and they felt very passionately about the whole issue. One of them stopped watching John Oliver because of his segment on Jill Stein... and still won't watch him to this day.

Another one of them, the one who went on to vote for Johnson, tagged me in over 70 anti-Hillary ads and memes on facebook. I ended up having to block him. That ended a friendship. I am still friends with the other two and hope to be friends with them for years to come. I hope they will vote Democratic in future elections, though you cannot force anyone to vote a particular way.

But to say this stuff didn't happen because that isn't your personal experience, that doesn't mean it's true.

I live in North Carolina. We were a swing state and I saw this stuff plenty. It made me frustrated and sad. As someone who voted for Sanders, I was already sad that he lost the primary and seeing false information didn't make that easier. One of the biggest things that solidified me back around Clinton was her book Stronger Together which laid out a detailed plan for our country and revisiting passages from her book Living History. But not everyone has that kind of interest or time. A lot of people just see some random meme on Facebook and go, "Whelp, looks right to me."

Confirmation bias is a powerful thing.