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

Jesse Coghlan8 hours agoMusk claims X hit by ‘massive DDoS attack’ delaying Trump interviewThe livestream ended up kicking off 30 minutes after the scheduled start, with the pair discussing immigration and the attempt on Trump’s life.2870 Total views5 Total sharesListen to article 0:00NewsOwn this piece of crypto historyCollect this article as NFTCOINTELEGRAPH IN YOUR SOCIAL FEEDFollow ourSubscribe onX owner Elon Musk claims the social media platform was 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. A DDoS attack aims to flood a network or service with traffic to disrupt and deny legitimate users from being able to use it.

It comes as technical issues plagued the X Spaces Musk and Trump were scheduled to hold at 8:00 pm Eastern Time as multiple X users complained they could not join.Source: Elon Musk

The site showed the stream was “not available,” but around 120,000 still managed to join. In a separate post, Musk said X tested the system earlier in the day with eight million concurrent listeners.

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Musk managed to start the interview shortly after 8:30 pm ET, which he earlier said would “proceed with a smaller number of live listeners” with unedited audio to be posted “immediately thereafter.”

“As this massive attack illustrates, there’s a lot of opposition to people just hearing what President Trump has to say,” Musk said when opening the interview.

Throughout the two-hour-long interview, Trump talked about — among other things — the attempt on his life, illegal immigration and foreign relations, and attacked President Joe Biden and his now rival presidential candidate, Vice President Kamala Harris.

Despite Trump’s pro-crypto push and Musk’s long-time love of Dogecoin (DOGE), crypto wasn’t mentioned once.

Polymarket punters bet just over $1 million on a 56% chance of Trump mentioning “crypto” or “Bitcoin” as the interview started, which both quickly dropped and continued to fall throughout the interview to hit a low of 1% before the interview ended.

Before the interview, Commissioner for Internal Market of the European Union, Thierry Breton, warned Musk in a letter that he must comply with EU laws, claiming his interview with Trump carried “a risk of amplification of potentially harmful content.”

X CEO Linda Yaccarino claimed Breton’s letter was “an unprecedented attempt to stretch a law intended to apply in Europe to political activities in the US.”Source:Linda Yaccarino

She claimed it ”patronizes European citizens” and suggests they’re “incapable of listening to a conversation and drawing their own conclusions.”

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Update (Aug. 13, 2:50 am UTC): This article has been updated to add comments from Elon Musk and Donald Trump.# Twitter# Business# Donald Trump# Elon MuskAdd reaction