Bruce Springsteen fan club founders say political fights, El-Sayed endorsement led to shutdown: report

A Bruce Springsteen fan club couldn't escape the badlands and shuttered over political commentary.

Founded more than a decade ago, the "Spring-Nuts" Facebook group dedicated to The Boss noticed its 18,000 members were no longer focused on his music as they battled against "hateful" online discourse due to Springsteen's public stances and recent endorsement of Michigan's senator-elect, Abdul El-Sayed.

"As the world grew increasingly divisive, hostile, those tensions inevitably spilled...