They just expanded the mod team and specifically called out COININTEL techniques. The site has definitely grown and they definitely needed more help, but the vetting process took time. It's also under siege at levels I don't think we or they have even seen before.

A few months ago shills were really obvious and easy to spot, but the brigading going on now is much more professional. You have to examine entire posting history now to spot some of them. And because they have been successful, and there are new users who've only arrived after the election, there are a lot of accounts that have merely been propagandized by the shills into thinking things like "pedos == Q-bs".