topics ranging from the mosque attack/rocket launches to just straight up trashing Israel's politics and simping for Palestine's accounts on Facebook/Twitter. It's very suspect the volume of lopsided narrative-driven posts that are getting upvoted to the front page just in the past week.

His first week was Trump and Biden both comparably bad because they’re both 80.

Now his Israel Palestine piece is repeating two of the three Russo-Iranian disinformation pieces on which the Hamas informational foundation stands.

The three are:

1. At Israel, that its goal is civilian harm rather than threat elimination. In a nutshell, that Israel is somehow evil.

2. At Palestinians, claiming Hamas will liberate them, when Hamas enslave them, use them as meat shields, and torpedo all progress on their statehood bid. Indirectly, Stewart repeats this lie, when he outright calls the Hamas “an idea” (of liberation). The Hamas is no more an idea or an organic liberation movement than the DNR, LNR, Houthis or Moscow backed rebels in Transnistria is (all also claiming to be about liberating something). In reality they are Moscow’s(/Iran’s) violent funded and armed militias. This is literally a Kremlin talking point.

3. (The one Stewart repeated): a lie pointed at ignorant international audiences: that it’s a 2-sided conflict. It’s a 3-sided conflict, with a slaver, a slave and a neighbour, and the people who cook it and hide their hand would like you to believe there’s a war between the slave and the neighbour. One Palestinian side is interested in a state (and Saudi Arabia was seeking concessions for this side in the deal cooked with Israel). One “Palestinian” side opposes progress to statehood because Moscow and Tehran told them to manufacture a forever frozen conflict. These two Palestinian of the overall three sides are very much not the same.

Where, in contrast, John Oliver would try to educate his audience, Stewart perpetuated disinformation (also, in addition to repeating two of the lies above, he was tarring Saudi Arabia with “not helping Palestinians” because Saudi Arabia didn’t give money to Russo-Iranian-puppet controlled institutions).

His bottom line was “everyone is the same, everything is shit”. The signature Russian move: repeat disinformation, create an image of hopeless badness, and then use that to call for outrage.

Is anyone else seeing this pattern?

I’m really struggling to believe someone like Stewart doesn’t understand the nuance he’s erasing.

EDIT: noticing some sub downwards traction on this post (five insta-downvotes) and comments saying people don’t want to talk about this. Hoping at least some of that is our resident apparatchik monitors from St. Petersburg.

This is one of the most polarizing issues in the US today. The issue is emotional, raw and wired for many people. This is exactly where Russia will aim to strike with its active measures efforts.

This is r/activemeasures. You look for the key where you lost it, not where there’s light. We need to talk about how this is getting weaponised, not bury it.

Anyone who has been involved with Reddit for at least 4 years will probably remember the drastic shift that /r/politics and /r/news took during the last election cycle. Every single day, there was another post about how Clinton was evil, her e-mails, and how she "stole" the election. It seemed designed to divide the left, and create a sense of voter apathy among anyone who would normally vote Democratic. I can't say for sure that this was an active interference tactic, but it did pop up during the election season, and pushed both of those subreddits into a strong anti-Democrat slant that was uncharacteristic for them.

I find the same thing happening this year. Anti-Biden posts have taken over normally left-leaning subreddits. One example is /r/enlightenedcentrism, a subreddit whose character is to generally make fun of people giving a "both sides are the same". Here's an example of one of the posts from before the election season, showing the typical kind of content you would get. Now, it's pretty much full of anti-Biden posts.

This is just one subreddit. I've also seen this happening in others as well. I had a poster claiming to be a leftist try to tell me that Biden is a pedophile, when I asked for a source, he posted a flimsy video from a youtube channel that was also full of Jordan Peterson, Alex Jones, and "Let's laugh at the stupid SJW"-type videos.

Obviously, as one Reddit user, I can't really get a scope for the overall state of the website across all subreddits. But, during the election season, I noticed a shift that is really strong in some places away from the regular characteristic of a subreddit and towards rampant anti-Biden spam. Much like the anti-Clinton spam, I see the fact that this just happens to be happening to the (apparent) Democratic candidate when campaigning for the general election is happening, and then is likely to stop after the election, beyond the possibility of a coincidence. I suspect that these types of posts are being upvoted, if not created, by bad actors domestic or abroad whose goal is to see Trump elected again.

Does anyone else have any examples of this kind of activity they're noticing?

This popped under every comment of a random user I saw in an other sub. What the fuck is happening???

The mods appear to be working overtime to control multiple narratives. Today, they’re using old megathreads as a reason to remove posts about the recent Supreme Court nominee. Is it time to let the media know that Reddit is being overrun? The advertisers would certainly be interested.

High-value, high-reward targets.

Banned from both for stating the truth.

Two doctors sharing anecdotal experience and having their quotes grossly taken out of context is morally repugnant and an affront to all healthcare workers.

South Africa overall has a low-rate of vaccination, but Gauteng in particular was supposed to reach ~70% by early-mid December - and Gauteng is the key province in question.

To present the low overall rate of vaccination as pertinent, when Gauteng actually has high coverage, is dishonest.

Looking at the domestic situation & California in particular, some counties are already struggling with Delta and are at 80-90% capacity for ICUs - some are using inpatient beds to keep those spots open, and are at 80-90% capacity for inpatient as well.

Suffice to say, any dual-spread scenario is going to be particularly painful, but we're still waiting for solid information.

Reveddit.com shows a clear pattern of behaviour.

They remove anti-vaxx BS (which is good,) but also remove factual information from solid sources. Consensus shaping and information warfare.