I imagine what got them worried was that they saw that they couldn't control the narrative anymore. If this was happening 20 years ago, we wouldn't even know there was a genocide happening in Gaza. The news wouldn't cover it, we'd be told that Palestinians are eating babies, and heroic Israel is defending our glorious western civilization against these savages who are attacking it completely unprovoked. But that doesn't work when Israeli atrocities are being live streamed to everyone's phones. All of a sudden people start asking questions, and that puts traditional media in a bind. If they keep ignoring it they become completely discredited, and if they start. covering it, then it confirms what people are seeing.

So now they're going after all the alternative channels to shut them down and make sure that you only get sanitized information that doesn't challenge the official narrative.