Maybe before you go off on a smug tirade about how other people should bother to verify their facts, you should bother to read your own sources. Here's the full statement that you nicely edited out of your response:
Bros4Hillary's political director told Heavy.com that the group was not responsible overall:
“Bros4Hillary was created as a way to provide a positive and supportive community for supporters of Hillary Clinton to gather, and as a direct response to the hateful and divisive rhetoric used by other campaigns during this election cycle,” he said. “We have not and do not approve of or condone harmful or offensive rhetoric or harassing behavior targeting supporters of any other candidate in the race…”
He then addressed specifically what happened on Monday.
“Last night, a former member … decided to engage in harassing behavior toward Facebook groups of Bernie Sanders and posted about it in the B4H Facebook group,” he said. “…This was not promoted or supported by the leadership of B4H… We removed the offending posts and member as soon as possible.”
All groups were reported functional as of 25 April 2016:
As of 23:55 ET all groups pages affected appear to be back up and running. Thank you all for your concern and reporting on the situation. Let's go onwards and focus on getting more victories!
On 26 April 2016, digital and social media manager for the Sanders campaign Aiden King addressed the rumors on the campaign's official Slack channel:
All of the groups are back up and it wasn't just Bernie groups.
So did a Hillary Clinton supporter falsely report several Sanders pages that night? Yes, he did. Was that the issue for all of them? Who knows, Facebook isn't saying. The allegations right now are that several members posted pornography on the Sanders facebook pages, and then another person reported the Sanders pages, but we have no official Facebook confirmation one way or the other. We
do however have visual evidence of a Clinton supporter admitting to tampering with Sanders Facebook pages.
We also have the admission from Correct the Record super PAC that they are leading a 1 million dollar project to "correct" the record on Hillary Clinton (What a bizarrely Orwellian name) called "Barrier Breakers." Incidentally, it's lead by David Brock who started the impeachment effort against Bill Clinton, if that gives you any idea of what kind of a mudslinging douche bag he is.
To try to claim that this is a completely implausible conspiracy theory is
hilarious. We don't know that they are behind it, but do know that:
1.) A Hillary PAC is paying people to troll (sorry, "correct") the internet.
2.) A Hillary supporter did attempt to shut down Bernie Sanders pages, which was either all or at least some of the Sanders pages that disappeared.
It's unclear how much of a role this individual had or if he was funded by the recent super PAC (suspicious timing at a minimum), but at least none of the points above are up for discussion. They're both facts.