Capitol Hill Buzz: Russian news site interrupts C-SPAN
WASHINGTON — Moscow, we have a problem.
Web surfers expecting to tune into C-SPAN’s online feed of debate in the House on Thursday instead saw images supplied by the Russian news site RT, which briefly interrupted programming on the network’s website.
Spokesman Howard Mortman said the website, www.c-span.org , was replaced by RT for about 10 minutes. The problem was likely a routing issue, since RT is one of the networks that C-SPAN regularly monitors, he said.
The network is “investigating and troubleshooting this occurrence,” Mortman said. The network later said it doesn’t believe it was hacked.