Allowed or encouraged?

This is the problem.

We can't be certain that a foreign actor couldn't destabilize our faith in our government by pushing pro-palestinian content.

A small push on a platform can snowball since creators take the stances that don't get them cancelled or want to mimic the popular opinion

I'm a 50+ average Joe who only watches Australian state media (ABC) and I've seen plenty of content that I find shocking from both Israel and Hamas and I came away with sympathy for the Palestinians caught in the middle.

Does that count as pro-Palestinian?

Lol where do you even get something so easily disproven like this? I care for neither Israel nor Palestine, but I see more or less equal coverage of both sides (not so much my side, funnily enough) on every platform.

Reddit is both anti-Israel and anti-Palestine depending on the sub. News channels will be one or the other depending on the slant and there's plenty on both sides. Most of instagram is people from both sides shouting at each other about how the other gets more representation/are more evil. Same with facebook. I don't use Twitter or any Twitter clones, but I assume Mastodon has a Palestinian slant while Twitter probably has a slight Israeli slant (shitposting aside). Even on HackerNews you'll see both stances often. I guess 4chan would have my stance, since they hate Israel because antisemitism but also hate Arabs.

Do people just make shit up like this for a laugh? I really don't get it, yet see it so often espoused.

> No, you can't. TikTok was the only mainstream platform where pro-Palestinian content was allowed to go viral.

Reddit shows pro-palestinian/anti-israel propaganda in the front page on a daily basis.

Also, the fact that Israel's invasion of Palestinian territories was an anti-Biden propaganda point that was boosted pretty hard doesn't exactly prove that the likes of China aren't pushing propaganda to destabilize the US. There was clearly a coordinated effort to force-fed the idea that Biden was pro-genocide and a warmonger, and Trump was the only possible candidate to push peace in Ukraine and Palestine.