"A tweet from conservative media icon Matt Drudge's verified Twitter account Thursday night appeared to accuse the government of interfering with his website, DrudgeReport.com, just hours after the Barack Obama administration announced new sanctions against Russia over election hacking.
Is the US government attacking DRUDGE REPORT? 
Biggest DDoS since site's inception. VERY suspicious routing [and timing]," the tweet to Drudge's 457,000 followers read. 
There were no other tweets from the account at the time.
A large-scale distributed denial of service attack, or DDoS, can cause major Internet disruptions. 
Drudge Report was down briefly around 7 p.m. EST, but working hours later. 
The top headline read: "MOSCOW MOCKS OBAMA 'LAME DUCK'" ...

Is the US government attacking DRUDGE REPORT?

Biggest DDoS since site's inception. VERY suspicious routing [and timing].




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Numerous reports of Russian state-run Network RT being unavailable. Drudge Report also under "Biggest DDoS attack since site's inception"