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The White House says it’s looking into how a YouTube creator’s livestream appeared to take over a White House website.
The livestream sharing commentary on investing 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 White House website was hacked or if the video was linked accidentally by someone in the government.
Matt Farley, who posts as @RealMattMoney, said in an email to The Associated Press that he had no idea what happened.
“If I had known my stream was going to go super public like that I would be dressed a bit nicer and had a few more pointed topics! And it likely wouldn’t have been about personal finance,” Farley wrote.