C-SPAN: Online Feed Briefly Interrupted by RT, Likely ‘Internal Routing Issue’

C-SPAN has issued a statement saying that their online feed was “briefly interrupted” by Russia Today and they’re looking into it.

The interruption apparently occurred around 2:30 pm EST, as Congresswoman Maxine Waters spoke on the House floor today, flagged in this video:

Here's the moment Russia Today took over the C-SPAN1 feed. Unclear what happened. RT aired for about ten minutes before C-SPAN1 came back. pic.twitter.com/mhWVgCoFxF

— Timothy Burke (@bubbaprog) January 12, 2017

(This issue did not impact C-SPAN 1’s television broadcast.)

After that video spread around Twitter, there was some question as to what actually happened here. C-SPAN ended up issuing a statement confirming there was an error of some kind and they’re looking into it:

pic.twitter.com/ybUWoxNTLn

— CSPAN (@cspan) January 12, 2017

[image via screengrab]

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