Large outages aren't uncommon. Also, what damaging truth is this attempting to stop the spread of? And why just the cellular networks? Cellular network disruption makes total sense if you wanted to launch a bunch of terror attacks to keep people from relaying information about them to authorities or to prevent authorities from warning people, but beyond that they're not stopping everyone at their desks.

Large outages aren't uncommon. Also, what damaging truth is this attempting to stop the spread of? And why just the cellular networks?

Large outages aren't uncommon.