PhotoAn online C-Span broadcast from the House floor was interrupted on Thursday by a broadcast from RT, an English-language network controlled by the Russian government. “As RT is one of the networks we regularly monitor, we are operating under the assumption that it was an internal routing issue,” the statement said. The Russian network was implicated in a declassified intelligence report that accused the Russian government of meddling in the United States presidential election. C-Span’s newsroom monitors many other news channels for breaking news, including domestic networks like CBS and CNN, and various international networks. Its statement suggested that a routing error had caused the RT feed it regularly monitors to be broadcast accidentally.

Source: New York Times January 12, 2017 21:48 UTC