It happened during canadian antivax protests. Many people cheered that antivaxxers were shown their place while forgeting that every stick has two ends.
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emacs.ch ended like that and fosstodon also had it's fair share
I just wish there wasn't so much sectarianism on fedi. Or maybe it's a good thing that this kind of social dynamic is possible in online world. I don't really know. What I do know is that it's rather annoying to see the instance admin being labeled as reactionary because someone dug up something from five years ago and decided to start a FUD campaing.
At the company I work for we had one best korean for two weeks before he got suspended. From what I understand the providers of corpo spyware that they put on your laptop enables them to detect patterns that are common in setups like that.
It's as important what they don't report on. Or the heading placements and wether the story gets burried after half a day. News organizations and politics are heavily connected. In my country it's very common to go from journalist to member of parliment or PR staff.
Canadian antivax protests come to mind. They froze transfers in support of the movement. It was a popular move back then but the same mechanism can be used in other instances as well.