They are not same nor was I implying they were the same. The point being that oversight and genuine mistakes happen. However Cloudflare wants to characterize it

They are not same nor was I implying they were the same. The point being that oversight and genuine mistakes happen. However Cloudflare wants to characterize it as "sloppiness and laziness" when it's someone else. And even here you are "parroting" them here when neither you or they actually know the details do you? Clearly Verizon has prefix filtering in place in other places or this would be a regular occurrence for them and it is not. Cloudflare is pretty far down the list in importance during an outage that affected many companies - other Tier 1s, 2s etc. Just because Cloudflare didn't get a response does not mean they weren't communicating. I know two network engineers who were in contact with Verizon yesterday during the outage. But again you seem intent to just "pile on" after reading a one-sided and self-serving Cloudflare blog post.