In March, an anonymous series of Facebook profiles started to comment on stories posted by the Tribune online that involved the Hanme Clark triple murder trial. These anonymous Facebook accounts almost always aggressively attacked one of the witnesses in the murder trial, and former Custer County deputy, Jason Salbato. Anytime a story about the murder trial was posted, an anonymous account with the name of âJohn Cloughâ made repeated libelous statements against Salbato that were extremely precise about information that was in the articles and seemed to come from inside the Custer County Sheriffâs Office. The Facebook attacks escalated on May 7, when the Tribune posted a story about how the failure of Custer County Undersheriff Susan Barnes had led to the judge ruling that…

