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There was no "psychological operation" per se - an anon made a post somewhere during 2019 or so that there was a large exodus of conservatives from Reddit and other social platforms during 2016 that largely replaced the local userbase which created nu-4chan as we know it today and modern /pol/

very likely this is what prompted the explosion of *Chan boards during the late 2010s such as Heyuri, there needed to be refuges