Hypothesis: Thousands of people around the world mis-flag content for a variety of reasons every day. One of the outsourced content-reviewers working for a cons

Hypothesis: Thousands of people around the world mis-flag content for a variety of reasons every day. One of the outsourced content-reviewers working for a consultancy hired by facebook made a mistake in handling the copyright infringement flag, and blocked the site. It wasn't noticed by anyone until the TechCrunch story went up.