YouTuber's Livestream Appears On White House Website (apnews.com) 13
The White House says it's investigating how a personal-finance YouTuber's livestream briefly appeared on the White House's official live video page. The creator says he has no idea how his video ended up there. The Associated Press reports: The livestream appeared for at least eight minutes late Thursday on whitehouse.gov/live, where the White House usually streams live video of the president speaking. It's unclear if the website was breached or the video was linked accidentally by someone in the government. The White House said in a statement that it was "aware and looking into what happened." The video that appeared on the government-run website featured some of a more than two-hour livestream from Matt Farley, who posts as @RealMattMoney, as he answered financial questions.
Farley told The Associated Press on Friday that he had no idea what happened and learned about it after the fact. He said he had not been contacted by the government and didn't have any theories about how his livestream ended up on the website. He joked that he hoped President Donald Trump and his youngest son, Barron Trump, "are watching my streams and taking advice."
"Had I known it would have been on the White House website, I probably would have had other things to talk about than personal finance," Farley said. When asked what other things he would discuss, Farley responded with a laugh and said: "What would you talk about with the world for eight minutes if you had an opportunity? I'm just some guy making YouTube videos about stocks."
Farley told The Associated Press on Friday that he had no idea what happened and learned about it after the fact. He said he had not been contacted by the government and didn't have any theories about how his livestream ended up on the website. He joked that he hoped President Donald Trump and his youngest son, Barron Trump, "are watching my streams and taking advice."
"Had I known it would have been on the White House website, I probably would have had other things to talk about than personal finance," Farley said. When asked what other things he would discuss, Farley responded with a laugh and said: "What would you talk about with the world for eight minutes if you had an opportunity? I'm just some guy making YouTube videos about stocks."
DOGE quality (Score:5, Insightful)
Fire all the "DEI hires" who know how to do stuff, and this is what you are left with...
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Re:DOGE quality (Score:4, Insightful)
If only this administration hired on merit.
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If only this administration hired on merit.
And didn't doge - I mean, dodge - accountability and responsibility.
Surprised? (Score:1)
No news here. The country is currently ran by a bunch of people with the mental capacity of a 5 year old. This is not surprising in the least.
AI knows best (Score:2)
Maybe YouTube's AI decided to flex?
Be thankful (Score:2)
Just be thankful they didn't accidentally broadcast what Greg Abbott was watching at the time. Furries are creepy.
The stupid explanation is probably the right one (Score:2)
For example:
Yesterday I get an email from Home Depot saying my refrigerator is going to be delivered next week. But it isn't my refrigerator. It belongs to someone whose phone number is one digit off of mine and got entered wrong at the store.
Not fraud, not malfeasance, just stupidity in having one manual data entry step with no validation in the critical path.
Don't know how the white house website does their livestream, but it wouldn't surprise me if copy-pasting a link into a form was in the critical path