Supporters of Democratic presidential candidate [crscore]Bernie Sanders[/crscore] are clashing with CNN, claiming the channel is censoring them and building a false narrative that Hillary Clinton won Tuesday’s presidential primary debate.

The current dispute begins with the Tuesday night presidential debate. Since the debate was co-hosted by Facebook, CNN showcased a Facebook poll in its post-debate coverage that suggested Sanders won the debate in a landslide.

But since that one television appearance, the poll has not appeared on CNN, and has also disappeared from its website. In addition, CNN has put out several articles touting Clinton as Tuesday’s big winner, while downplaying Sanders’ performance and ignoring other polls suggesting Sanders was the real winner.

Supporters of Sanders accuse CNN of pushing a narrative that Clinton won despite the facts.

Of course, CNN has a ready-made defense (which it hasn’t used, though Slate has): Online polls are not scientific and can easily be stuffed by a small, passionate group of activists, so online poll results can hardly be used to crown a debate’s winner.

But that quibble hasn’t stopped Sanders supporters from deluging CNN’s Facebook page for the past day, spamming every single article posted with hundreds of comments attacking the network, regardless of what the article is about:

According to the blog Media Equalizer, Sanders backers are seeing some of their comments get deleted, but that has hardly slowed them down as they continue to relentlessly comment on every article.

The Sanders supporters accuse CNN’s owner, Time Warner Inc., of being in the tank for Clinton, because the company’s employees are one of Clinton’s largest donor groups. One relatively in-depth but still representative comment was this one, posted by a Facebook user named Malcolm Reynolds (Update, 10:14 AM: A Facebook user named Chad Almadani contacted TheDCNF and presented evidence he was the original author of the comment):

Others are passing around an image link showing CNN sponsored a post (essentially a Facebook ad) touting an article critical of Sanders, saying it is further proof of CNN’s biased intentions.

In a related effort, thousands of disgruntled people are signing a Change.org petition calling CNN corrupt and ordering them to admit Sanders was the real debate winner.

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