One media outlet had published a piece about them a while ago, and later removed the piece and fired the writer.
https://old.reddit.com/r/Steam/comments/1m5fxjn/vice_removes_articles_on_collect...
https://www.notebookcheck.net/After-payment-processors-prompt-removal-of-Steam-g...
The article even got removed from The Wayback Machine (you can note on the PCGamer article that it mentions the article can still be found there, but that's no longer the case anymore).
I don't know how or why this small group has this kind of power, but it all looks fishy as hell.