[mindfulhack]

Hope I don't get downvoted, but I like to entertain plausible but low probability ideas because my creative mind goes there:

What if some outages like this are the US government performing security attack testing to test infrastructure of PRISM-like partners (or just anyone economically important to the US), so that when real attacks come from cyber enemy states like China, things have already been probed to see what needs to be fixed.

Kind of like national security HIIT, so your body politic is ready for war. National security is about economic health too. It's all part of the one picture.

</creative thinking>

[judge2020]

Not a impossibility but there's nothing to support this. Unsupported accusations are just conspiracy theories without a cult following behind them [yet].