As Twitchy reported, the one or two people watching C-SPAN 1 Thursday afternoon were caught off guard when the feed suddenly began showing programming from RT — that’s Russia Today, people.
C-SPAN said it would investigate, and soon suspected that the swap was due to a routing error.
C-SPAN says it believes an "internal routing error" — not hacking — caused its regular programming to be interrupted by RT network. https://t.co/lk0NZa7Z3Y
— Connor O'Brien (@connorobrienNH) January 13, 2017
In a statement, C-SPAN noted that its staff regularly monitors RT … most likely waiting for the secret go-ahead signal from Vladimir Putin.
Statement from C-SPAN about January 12 Online Signal Interruption pic.twitter.com/dlkSOntJgz
— CSPAN (@cspan) January 13, 2017
Shaun King, senior justice writer for the New York Daily News, tweeted that Rep. Maxine Waters, whose floor speech as interrupted by the programming swap, was targeted, being one on the most fearless enemies of Putin’s BFF, Donald Trump.
https://twitter.com/ShaunKing/status/819711168847691776
Sounds legit.
https://twitter.com/Gucci2xxxl/status/819714756915380224
@bubbaprog what the hell happened? What's it going to take to stop all of this? It's insane!!
— Tmeadows (@tmead816) January 13, 2017
@ChrisCuomo good lord this is scary!
— PattyMcCrayFogartyHa (@PattyHalpin) January 13, 2017
I don't think Russia is just doing this from the outside without any internal help.
— Corrine (@loveabundantly) January 13, 2017
https://twitter.com/KrisKoles/status/819721192982474752
#GOPYouOwnThis You backed Mother Russia and now you remain silent.
— Michele Delgado (@MoreThanTango) January 13, 2017
The GOP isn’t going to own up to this stunt now that it has the cover of the president-elect, certainly.
@bubbaprog I wouldn't run too hard with this Shaun. Cspan already saying they carry RT feed, likely internal error.
— John Zahorik (@johnzahorik) January 13, 2017
https://twitter.com/gorillazfan82/status/819711977140301824
CSPAN tweeted that they think it was an internal error.
— Carrie (@carrko) January 13, 2017
https://twitter.com/KameronJdevine/status/819712237677867008
mate it was the online feed, not the actual station. and c-span has already said it was an internal routing issue
— Lukis (@LukisYT) January 13, 2017
As someone who has worked in live television, the @cspan explainer of an incorrect router patch makes sense.
— walter biscardi (@walterbiscardi) January 13, 2017
At least the public knows where to turn when Russian hacking is suspected.
@bubbaprog I think Russia just tried to Hack my Cell phone! Its been acting weird
— World Citizen (@WorldPaparazzi) January 13, 2017
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