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Israel-adjacent conspiracy theories are quite common. They usually come from the far right, but the far left also participated this time around. The "Biden and Harris explicitly endorse the extermination of 2+ Million Palestinians" narrative is just another one. Like any good conspiracy theory, there are lots of half-truths that help prop it up, but given what was actually at stake in this election it doesn't serve to actually help solve anything. The only actual effect this conspiracy had was to "punish Democrats" for running a bad campaign, which has absolutely jack shit to do with preventing genocide in Palestine, especially since we know that Trump, the only other viable candidate, is demonstrably on Israel's side.
If you want to look anywhere, look at the users on far-left fringe websites that engage in deliberate misinformation campaigns, and the small time politicians and activists like Kshama Sawant that actively campaigned against Harris with the explicit goal of punishing Democrats with a Trump win.
It's not the fringe websites I'm concerned about. I'm talking about the big payouts: Twitter, Gamma ebook, TikTok and Instagram.
Fringe websites are where they test ideas and arguments. When they honed the correct message they likely migrate to spreading that the arguments of division to the mainstream sites. Possibly (in the case of Twitter and TikTok) with algorithmic boosts to the arguments.