Regarding "hive of COVID misinformation", consider that if a subreddit like r/TiA can be banned for spreading "misinformation", that there might in fact be a semi-organized program to suppress COVID-realted information on Reddit and other social media platforms. I call your attention to this recent preprint: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4125239. This article provides statistical analysis that suggests the vaccines were more harmful than beneficial. While the article is not yet peer-reviewed, many of the authors are all from well-respected institutions and thus the article should at least be taken into consideration rather than dismissed outright. In fact, many of the early COVID skeptics were luminaries in fields such as epidemiology, but they were silenced because their skepticism did not fit a certain narrative.