FuckAlms !vX8K53rFBI joined in and replied with this 10 years ago, 1 hour later[^][v]#709,765
It means they want you to consent to reading comments so that you can't complain about being triggered because somebody used the 'b' word.
Anonymous C joined in and replied with this 10 years ago, 27 minutes later, 2 hours after the original post[^][v]#709,766
It's because the commenters disagree with the news site's spin and expose their narrative. National Review recently switched from Disqus to Facebook for its comments because it had trouble banning people. And Facebook already is run like the former Soviet Union.