I also think @timcliff is in cahoots with these deepstate actors. He has removed the views. An essential feedback instrument to see how big your audience is.
Of course the devs and top witnesses have knowledge of these views and they can see things we ordinary small fish cannot see.
Maybe Al Masdar News gets too many viewers despite nobody places a comment on their Steemit blog?
That would explain why @cheetah from @anyx is systematically downvoting each topic he posts. Hoping to in time systematically lower its reputation. Together with @themarkymark @badcontent bot.
That way they can discourage other critical Twitter posters to post on Steemit, as they will realise these bots will jump on them and there is almost nobody here to read their content anyway.