@GossiTheDog

The CNN article also only cites one anonymous source for that, and doesn't say that the source actually has any inside knowledge.

Again, if you can posit a causal link between anything to do with peering, and the observed failures, I'm all ears.

Until then, canonically, it was the DNS.

No, just kidding. For once, I don't think there's any plausible link with the DNS either.