Months after Sanders ended his campaign and endorsed Clinton, several activists who ran Facebook pages for Bernie Sanders began to note a suspicious flood of hostile comments aimed at Clinton. “Those who voted for Bernie will not vote for corrupt Hillary!” they read. “The Revolution must continue! #NeverHillary.” “The magnitude and viciousness of it,” one Facebook administrator told my colleague Scott Shane, suggested that this was the work of a cold-blooded adversary with an agenda, but the sheer idea that any of this was a Russian campaign still struck many Americans as crazy Cold War–speak.
