For example, you can then pose the conspiracy that the fact it was Russian interference conspiracy was a conspiracy to justify more social media policing during the real election.
Perhaps but why would downtime increase policing? Something like a large scale fake news campaign (i.e. basic deep fakes or something) is easier (generally speaking) to pull off and would be more likely to cause increased policing that a short outage.
For example, you can then pose the conspiracy that the fact it was Russian interference conspiracy was a conspiracy to justify more social media policing during the real election.