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Why did a Russian propaganda network take over C-SPAN’s feed?

Well, this is unsettling.

 

Josh Katzowitz

Tech

Posted on Jan 12, 2017   Updated on May 25, 2021, 5:21 am CDT

With all the talk about Russia hacking the U.S. presidential election and with President-elect Donald Trump flattering Russian President Vladimir Putin, forgive people for wondering if their American institutions will be taken over by foreign adversaries.

Which made what occurred on C-SPAN on Thursday awfully strange: For about 10 minutes, Russia Today, a well-known Russia propaganda channel funded by Russia’s government, took over C-SPAN’s live feed. And nobody seems to know exactly why.

So, what gives? According to C-SPAN, it could have been an internal routing issue.

That’s clearly a more likely reason than RT somehow gaining command of C-SPAN itself. But with recent news, you can understand why people would assume something more nefarious was at work.  

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*First Published: Jan 12, 2017, 5:52 pm CST
 

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