some of it is funding from political action groups. others are shilled marketing campaigns/blackmail.

notice how most of reddit softbans outlinks, but occasionally lets some sites through? yeah, they paid for it.

covid was a huge money maker in itself... the political groups funneled millions from government grants. ever wonder why citing CDC or UKPH data which went against the covid narrative was universally a sitebannable offense? yeah. it's because they were paid millions to censor.