The affinity for Tucker Carlson (as well as the other things) is from the sidebar. Apparently their familiarity with Western media is enough to know he is pro-Russian, but not enough to realize that expressing on a leftist forum that they like him, will make them glow a little bit.
The original issue was that they posted a story from Mint Press News, and I dropped them a friendly note that it was Russian propaganda, more or less assuming they had included it innocently (since there was nothing wrong at all that I can see with the particular story, or in fact with any of the stories in that community.)
Things escalated. Fun quotes by the mod from the ensuing conversation:
It’s actually not from “New Knowledge,” it’s from a US Senate report, but I doubt that will make this person believe it any more.
The real disinformation was inside us all this time. Of course, I was banned. Reason for the ban?
Clearly, their disinformation policy is lock tight.
PTB.
I think that instance was only hours old when I censured it in Fediseer and promptly de-federated from it.
Censure reason:
Yeah. If you want some surprises, too, go and look and which user from a different instance was helping them do some initial posts back in the “doing test posts and populating content” days. I guarantee you will find the answer to be interesting.