C-SPAN says an “internal routing error” caused last Thursday’s interruption of its online feed, when the Kremlin-financed English-language news network Russia Today took over C-SPAN’s primary online feed for roughly 10 minutes.
“C-SPAN has concluded its investigation and as we had anticipated last Thursday, the interruption of our C-SPAN.org livestream on January 12th was caused by an internal routing error,” the network said in a statement to TheWrap.
“C-SPAN.org was not hacked. We have determined that during testing for inaugural coverage, RT’s signal was mistakenly routed onto the primary encoder feeding C-SPAN1’s signal to the internet, rather than to an unused backup.”