[dexen]

>the government took it down to protect itself

That's a far-fetched hypothesis, bordering on conspiratorial thinking.

A more mundane, realistic -and more common- scenario: due to mistakes made (as noted in OP: downtime, misplaced data files, APIs needlessly changed, etc.,) the responsibility was transferred to another team.

[Traster]

I think you've mis-read the reporting, she was removed on May 5th, before the issues you listed, after being asked to censor the data.