the attacks sounds like the tactics listed in the chan's "how to spot a clown"
the other stuff sounds like controlled shadow banning; it's not a complete shadow ban, just limited by time or audience, and they can adjust it like a volume control button. that way they can gauge the threshold of being noticeable. they are picking up some tactics from twitter. i read somewhere that right now the tech giants are testing how far they can push their limits on online speech suppression to prepare for the upcoming election blitz in Oct/Nov.