Not quite “hijacked” as the title implies.

The corp already was admin of the GitHub org, with contributors having a level of access.

Said contributors had their access lowered w/communication.

I say fork it and move on w/your lives. The project is mostly just a list/static webpage. Call the new one “free-apis-list” or something.

Needs a [2022]

The link ended up at the wrong archive date, this is ongoing and the actual github site is currently broken: https://github.com/public-apis/public-apis/issues/3104