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This is most U.S. news outlets. Anything more concrete on a government connection?
For an "apolitical" "humour" magazine they sure were big fans of pushing a ton of very explicitly political articles to the forefront. My main suspicion is how Robert Evans wrote for them a lot, he's got known connections to the CIA and positions himself as a "leftist journalist" but always seems to defend the US state department line. Not sure why a humour website would post a bunch of articles promoting him. Though it doesn't need to be a direct government connection though, it could just be the owners of the site liking his content. They have shared unabashedly pro-US propaganda quite a bit though, but as you say, this could just be fairly bog standard USians being in so deep they don't even know how biased their view is.