The Young Turks report that supporters of Hillary Clinton recently took down a number of Facebook pages devoted to her opponent for the Democratic nomination, Bernie Sanders.

“All of this on the heels of Hillary Clinton Super-PAC ‘Correct The Record’ spending a million dollars on paid online trolls [whose] job is attacking Bernie supporters online,” say The Young Turks.

—Posted by Alexander Reed Kelly.

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