Before the general elections, Russian hackers were Bernie supporters

Before the general elections, Russian hackers were campaigning for Bernie

That makes sense, based on the commonly held belief that their assignment was to sabotage Hillary.

Then, during the election, some of the abuse heaped on Hillary supporters by supposed Bernie Bros appears to have been Russian-controlled Twitter accounts.

"The first time I knew the #MAGA accounts had been bots, and the first time it occurred to me that the 'Bernie Bro' accounts might also have been, was on November 9th, the day after the election. The accounts went totally silent. That is just not a normal human reaction. I had expected them to be making victory laps on Twitter. In fact, they were not just silent; the vast majority of them were gone. Poof. I blocked thousands of these accounts on Twitter over the course of about 18 months. When I went to check my list of blocked accounts, there were about a dozen left in existence."