The Russian English-language news channel RT has briefly interrupted the online video feed of the US network C-SPAN, broadcasting for around 10 minutes.



The feed from RT – for Russia Today, which US officials accuse of being a propaganda outlet – interrupted footage of a congressional session featuring Representative Maxine Waters speaking about the Securities and Exchange Commission at around 2:30 pm (1930 GMT) before the site returned to regular programming.

C-SPAN is investigating the incident, the public affairs network said in a statement.

“This afternoon the online feed of C-SPAN was briefly interrupted by RT programming,” it said.

“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.”

RT reported the interruption on its own Twitter feed hinting at conspiracy theories around the incident.

The incident took place amid a mounting controversy about Russian internet hacking, which US intelligence officials believe was carried out to help Donald Trump win the presidential election in November.