"The problems came to a head in November when the Open Street Map Foundation’s board of directors rejected membership requests for “more than 100 applicants” from GlobalLogic, thereby restricting the number of outsourced representatives working on maps for Grab and other clients of the agency.

“There had been a mass sign-up of 100 new accounts on 15.11.2018 from India, most coming from one single IP address from a company “well known” to OpenStreetMap. There had been a larger amount of complaints regarding edits from that company, who provide “mapping services” to other companies,” read a circular issued by the board."

This is poor journalism. If you read the linked post ( https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/osmf-talk/2018-Nov... ) it says the complete opposite. The new members were not rejected. (The request to block them was rejected)