It could be for something far more petty, like covering up speaking gaffes. When you give petty image-obsessed people a lot of power, they’ll use it for petty, image-preserving reasons.

I hope someone once does a deep dive when archive.org was taken down for a few weeks by hackers from a "pro-Palestinian" group. It felt like a black propaganda attack, especially with the very tame videos they shared on social media about the crimes their enemy committed (videos of buildings being blown up instead of innocent children).