Was Youtube a Deep State Test ?

October is National Cybersecurity Awareness month in the US

Could the Oct 16 Youtube outage be some form of cybersecurity test in conjunction with the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)? A media outlets report the same vague story that Youtube twitter reported a outage due to internal server errors and the problem has been resolved. Oct 16, 2018 CFR posted an article “Disinformation On Steroids” discussing fake news and videos posted on line to spread disinformation [ or to reveal facts and truth ] and how media and internet companies to work to prevent these cyberattacks or cybercrimes.

What if CFR provided fake videos to Youtube and see how quickly they could secure access and remove offensive material so users could not make copies to archive offline.

From cyberbrief newsletter (member site so only intro is available in preview):

October is National Cybersecurity Awareness month in the U.S., an initiative started 15 years ago as a collaborative effort between the Department of Homeland Security and the National Cyber Security Alliance in hopes of raising awareness about the growing cyber threat.

As part of The Cipher Brief’s cyber coverage this month, we’ll be talking with a number of global leaders about how we see threats differently and how entities can work more closely together to address them.

Some leading cyber experts in the U.S. have advocated for years for a new government entity modeled after the UK’s Government Communications Headquarters, more commonly referred to as ‘GCHQ’.

GCHQ works with both the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) and the domestic intelligence service (MI5) toward a single mission: to keep the UK safe. The U.S. has been working closely with the UK for years, and GCHQ’s current director, Jeremy Fleming, made his first public appearance in the U.S. last month at the Billington Cyber Security Summit in Washington D.C. where he spoke publicly about his Agency’s close relationship with the NSA.

Former GCHQ Director and Cipher Brief Expert Robert Hannigan sat down with Cipher Brief CEO Suzanne Kelly to talk about today’s threats, how the UK thinks about them differently than the U.S. in some ways, and the critical need for fresh, innovative thinking to stay ahead of them. “

https://www.thecipherbrief.com/article/cyber/global-cyber-challenges-of-the-future

Another anon shared the article link from the Council on Foreign Relations, Oct 16 2018:

https://www.cfr.org/report/deep-fake-disinformation-steroids