When millions of human beings subscribe to an ideology, it becomes real because human beings believe it is real. When swaths of the human population are conditioned to believe certain periods of the calendar year are preordained for communication breakdowns and volatility (Mercury in Retrograde), then that is inevitably what happens. At the minimum, incidences of this nature like the Facebook outage are used as justification to reinforce an ideological imperative. https://paradoxpolitics.com/2021/10/is-astrology-ideology/