Musk claims X hit by ‘massive DDoS attack’ delaying Trump interview

X owner Elon Musk claims the social media platform “appears to” have been hit with a Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack as his slated interview with presidential hopeful Donald Trump was set to kick off. 

“There appears to be a massive DDoS attack on X. Working on shutting it down," Musk posted to X on Aug. 12.

It comes as technical issues plagued the X Space Musk and Trump were scheduled to hold at 8:00 PM Eastern US time as multiple X users complained they were unable to join. Those who have joined have only heard waiting music — neither Musk nor Trump have spoken. 

Musk says they will proceed with a smaller number of concurrent listeners at 8:30pm ET, and post the unedited audio shortly after.