After reading this article, I think that taking down or hiding the GN site code George News is not the objective of this fire, especially given the scale of the losses. The GN website was only an aggregator with probably not a whole lot of traffic, and wasn't even well-maintained by the GN team, who spend a lot more of their time, effort and content on Telegram and YouTube. They continue to post on Telegram as if their main site never existed in the first place (and really, the site wasn't even that interesting. If it were a honeypot then it would make for a very lazy attempt at one.).

I think that more important objectives would have existed among the millions of websites affected. For example, the game RUST was affected majorly with total permanent data losses: this is a game that sold over 5 million copies. Other major players were also affected:

The list of impacted clients includes cyber threat intelligence company Bad Packets, provider of free chess server Lichess.org, videogame maker Rust, cryptocurrency exchange Deribit's blog and docs sites, telecom company AFR-IX, encryption utility VeraCrypt, news outlet eeNews Europe, the art building complex Centre Pompidou, and many others.

Deribit has clarified to BleepingComputer that the outage only impacted their docs and blog sites and that the exchange was never down.

For videogame maker Rust, the incident has led to a total data loss leaving no way for recovery.

"We've confirmed a total loss of the affected EU servers during the OVH data centre fire. We're now exploring replacing the affected servers. Data will be unable to be restored," the game developer tweeted.

If this were arson, it would be more plausible to say that this was large-scale economic sabotage than to say that it was a reaction to what some anons on GAW uncovered over GN. Like they could have simply taken the site offline and not incur all these other economic losses, otherwise it would be like using a jack-hammer to hammer in a nail.