Zoom-bombing, the hijacking of a video conference by disruptors, has been a common problem for governments and classrooms that adopted virtual attendance options following the start of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020. — dpa
An unusually crowded Medical Lake City Council meeting, animated by disputed and unfounded concerns that Spokane Mayor Lisa Brown was secretly planning to open a homeless shelter in the small neighbouring community, was briefly derailed on Aug 6 night after a virtual attendee began streaming pornography and loud music over the council's video conferencing software.
"It was horrible," Councilman Chad Pritchard said in a brief interview, noting that the attendee played "loud Indian techno" music and porn over the Zoom live stream.
