On Friday, many news sources reported that people RCN Boston mistakenly broadcast a half hour of hardcore pornography last night on CNN. If we look a little deeper, we can see this may not be true. The International Business Times first reported the story based on a series of tweets from one account that is now private. Mashable also wrote up the story, using a tweet from someone else, although it appears to be a screenshot taken from the original poster. (We’ve reached out to ask.)
https://twitter.com/embed/status/802146009065340928
Jeff Carlson, SVP and general manager of RCN Boston, told multiple news sources, “We are in the process of researching this incident but see no evidence our CNN network feed was compromised last evening in Boston.”
We have reached out to RCN and will update the post when we get a response.
Update 2:47PM: Journalist Luke O’Neil received a picture from the woman who initially tweeted out the picture. While she may have seen this last night, there’s no evidence to indicate anyone else in Boston had the same issues.
https://twitter.com/embed/status/802234720004227072
Update 4:00PM: Luke O’Neil reports that a CNN spokesperson told him “there was no interruption of CNN’s programming in the Boston area last night.”
https://twitter.com/embed/status/802251579743145984
Additionally:
Reports that CNN aired porn in the Boston area last night are false. CNN & RCN have both confirmed to @BNONews that there were no problems.
— BNO News (@BNOFeed) November 25, 2016
If you live in Boston, have RCN, and saw porn on CNN last night, tip us at [email protected].
