> But these comments raised doubts about the prevailing narrative, which consisted mostly of the usual talking points copied and pasted from DSA, Russian, Qatari, etc. propaganda.

This reads like an "everything I hate is propeganda" complaint. If your friends were all coming to HN with the expectation that technical discussions would be filtered to suit their political sensitivity, then I'm glad you've stopped recommending it to them. HN is not your personal army, we have no responsibility to promote "the prevailing narrative" if it precludes intelligent or gratifying discussions of the news.