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In a strange moment of startling symmetry with the current state of American politics, C-SPANthe public affairs network that regularly broadcasts proceedings the United States House of Representatives and Senatewas interrupted by a broadcast of Russia Today.
The state-funded Russian news network briefly took over the online feed of C-SPAN1, which had been broadcasting a discussion in Congress regarding the Securities and Exchange Commission Regulatory Accountability Act.
As California Democrat Maxine Waters was speaking, the feed suddenly cut from the House floor to a broadcast of RT. The feed cut in with a commercial break before returning to the RT news desk, where an anchor spoke of a suicide bombing.
Multiple C-SPAN watchers made mention of the sudden change on Twitter, including Deadspin editor Timothy Burke, who captured the moment the C-SPAN feed switched to RT.
The takeover reportedly lasted about ten minutes before the C-SPAN feed was returned to normal. The interruption does not appear on the saved broadcast hosted on the network's website.
When contacted by IBTimes, A spokesperson for C-SPAN provided the following statement: "This afternoon the online feed for C-SPAN was briefly interrupted by RT programming. We are currently investigating and troubleshooting this occurrence. As RT is one of the networks we regularly monitor, we are operating under the assumption that it was an internal routing issue. If that changes we will certainly let you know."
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CentralMass
(15,265 posts)doc03
(35,295 posts)the Russia connection comes up in Congress. Don't think that is any accident. What are the odds
something like getting hit by lighting while claiming your winning Super Lotto ticket. That is
probably a slight exaggeration.
bettyellen
(47,209 posts)The first time power and lights went out completely in the room and they had a green screen. Then less than two hours later this happened. It's a plot to make people think they're going nuts.