Some more quotes from the study we brought here on Hyehudi:
A unique phenomenon of censorial expansion occurred alongside the split and creation of Hamevaser within the old Hamodia of all places, which stopped referring to the Gur sect, the group that controls the publication and whose members make up the publication’s core readership, by name.
The split within the Lithuanian faction and the creation of Hapeles (2012) by the Jerusalem Faction, which is extreme in its opinions regarding opposition to the State of Israel and compulsory military service for yeshiva students, led to a change in both publications’ editorial lines: Yated Ne’eman stopped censoring stories about Chabad and the representatives of the Ultra-Orthodox Sephardim, Shas, and began, instead, to censor events and Lithuanian rabbis who supported extreme actions against the state.
At Hapeles, the editor changed the censorial line that he followed as the editor of Yated Ne’eman and stopped censoring communities that now became its political allies (Gur), and instead censored the Lithuanian mainstream and its moderate line regarding state institutions.