its not a conspiracy theory, facebook are giving away resources for free and don’t actually need to give a reason for taking away content – the users aren’t customers, advertisers are! If it stopped making money tomorrow it would get switched off and the resources diverted to something else.
Every decision made on a site like that is ultimately a commercial one.
Although cops can’t directly censor facebook in the UK, if the word gets about to normal folk that “facebook is a site linked to criminal activity” then cops and other authorities will encourage parents to block it from their children and businesses to block it in the workplace and then they lose users and thus eyeballs to see their adverts.
Already gumtree is blocked on a lot of workplace filters because their mods/admins didn’t stop the site getting linked to violent robberies and the sex industry.
the most likely cause is not the OB but that the group pissed off a lucrative advertising client who threatened to withdraw their business.
