Rush Limbaugh has been talking about it on his program. Personally, I believe this is either a hack or outright censorship.
Hack maybe - censorship extremely unlikely - anyone trying that at AT&T would get kicked out the door. They don't care all that much about politics; what they care about is something called the Net Promoter Score, and any service disruption lowers that and any lowering of it affects the annual bonuses.
Coincidently, the areas of the outage
just happen to be in two 'hotly contested' States (North Carolina & Florida).
Coincidence , ..I think not !
If i had the ability to hack (which I don't) I would look for instructions from the owner to the network distribution center.
Most people don't know how to switch from HDMI to standard reception
as most connections were made by a qualified technician.