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DeSantis initiated this after they changed their stance. This is purely a political move. Just go check out patriots.win (the successor to /r/thedonald). They're still completely convinced that GFM took all the money and is giving it to BLM. I'm not even being hyperbolic, check it out

DeSantis probably just picked up on the rightwing twitter chatter and is trying to ride the wave

The original thedonald.win was shut down by legal pressure from the White House. Patriots.win appears to be just the extremists from the old platform.

No... I was following along with thedonald.win for a long time. They were preparing for a transition to patriots.win for months before they ditched the old domain. It came from some letter of Trump's who vaguely hinted towards starting a new party called the "Patriots Party". Obviously that never came to pass, but the name stuck

It's literally the exact same platform, style, users, posts, etc. Nothing got "shut down"

They also received a massive amount of chargebacks precipitating this decision.

the article says the opposite, that the investigation started after it was announced they would be refunded automatically.