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.
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