Early Friday morning, the infamous UES Mommas Facebook group – known for its exclusionary membership practices and petty parenting controversies – was suddenly shut down by parent company Meta.

Last Friday, in an online drama that felt ripped out of the Gossip Girl era (the original, of course), the infamous — and yet also beloved — Facebook group UES Mommas abruptly disappeared.

Not all is fair in fiction. Controversy-laden mom community UES Mommas recently banned local author Jane L. Rosen from its popular Facebook group after perceiving that a fake group described in ...