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Oklahoma Speaker Attributes Nude Images on Superintendent’s TV to Smart-TV Glitch

Forensic logs attribute the nude footage to a Samsung smart TV defaulting to an R-rated Jackie Chan film on Samsung’s TV Plus app.

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The investigation continues into claims that Oklahoma Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters had images of nude women on his office television during a meeting.
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Overview

  • House Speaker Kyle Hilbert and the Office of Management and Enterprise Services found that the Samsung TV auto-launched the TV Plus app and defaulted to Channel 1204, which aired scenes from the 1985 film The Protector matching board members’ descriptions
  • Samsung’s forensic logs confirm that full nudity sequences from The Protector were playing during the July 24 State Board of Education executive session in Ryan Walters’s office
  • Hilbert called the event a “bizarre accident” and said his findings vindicate both Superintendent Walters and board members Becky Carson and Ryan Deatherage
  • The Oklahoma County Sheriff’s Office and the State Bureau of Investigation continue criminal probes into the incident without formal conclusions
  • The episode has reignited scrutiny of device management and accountability in Oklahoma’s education governance against a backdrop of partisan tensions