A virtual speech by Federal Reserve Governor Christopher Waller was canceled on Thursday after a participant “highjacked” the Zoom call by showing pornography on his screen.
Waller was scheduled to deliver remarks on the economic outlook to the Mid-Size Bank Coalition of America. The speech was highly anticipated because Fed watchers wanted to know how Waller, usually regarded a “dove” on interest rates, was reacting to the spate of data in the last few weeks showing the economy and inflation heating up.
Moments before Waller was to speak, one of the participants in the Zoom call started playing pornography that was visible to the other participants. The call was quickly terminated.
“We were a victim of a teleconference or Zoom hijacking and we are trying to understand what we need to do going forward to prevent this from ever happening again. It is an incident we deeply…
