^^^ This is Github’s official statement which is absolutely worth reading.

However, the title is rather unfortunate: “Update on an employee matter.” That title is extraordinarily biased. While I didn’t really anticipate how this submission would get flagged, I don’t think the corporate-speak title is at all fair to the situation. That said, duly noted how the mods treated that story versus this one.

flagging isn't done by mods, but by users. And I assume a large part of it being flagged is because it's a duplicate of the other discussion.