> The scrubbing, Meta teams explained in documents regarding their efforts to reduce scam discoverability, sought to make problematic content “not findable” for “regulators, investigators and journalists.”

This seems to be the "smoking gun"... but it's unclear from the article what the source or context of the quotations are.

> “not findable” for “regulators, investigators and journalists.”

> but it's unclear from the article what the source or context of the quotations are.

Good point, this quote could just be painting their actions in the poorest possible light.