This war is being led by a mass of nameless faceless billionaires and millionaires, and not all of them are in on it.
The goal is to entrench the rich in unassailable positions, and anytime there is a meeting place or gathering place of enough of us peasants to even begin to pose the slightest risk to them, they purchase that place with their immense shopping power and dismantle it.
That explains Facebook/IG, and Reddit and Twitters recent destabilization. They don't want us to have a place where we can communicate and coordinate.
It also explains the news media empire, because people who are constantly dismayed and like the story of Chicken Little always being told that the sky is falling are more likely to listen to the fox and be led to slaughter.
They're already attempting to make inroads on the federated services, anytime a federated service gets large undoubtedly there will be a massive gathering of bot accounts that will Target and destabilize any federated server. There will be people whose entire livelihoods are made around selling their mercenary services to companies who want to destroy and destabilize a federated server if it gets large enough to serve as a meeting ground.
And the whole point of all of this is just to keep us from talking with each other and organizing in sufficient quantities and locations to push our agendas over their agendas.