Supporters of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders (I) reported earlier this month that during the 2016 election, their social media feeds and pro-Sanders Facebook groups were inundated with what they now believe were Russian bots spewing anti-Hillary memes including fake news stories about Clinton using a body double and murdering her ideological opponents. Over time the anti-Clinton online faction became known by the nickname “Bernie Bros.”
In all the social media furor over this, I never saw this article and the comments from the actual Bernie Sanders campaign. It was all rancorous debating about whether or not Bernie Bros really existed. Probably because Twitter (the engine, not the employees that built the engine) noticed that those tweets were engaging and pushed them.