Elon Musk’s much-hyped interview of Donald Trump on the social media platform X was nearly derailed early on by technical glitches. Musk blamed a cyberattack, saying “There appears to be a massive DDOS attack on.” After nearly an hour of troubleshooting, the conversation started in earnest and went another two hours. Elon Musk (L) and Donald Trump (R). David Swanson | Vincent Alban | Reuters
Elon Musk‘s much-hyped interview of former President Donald Trump on the social media platform X was nearly derailed early on by technical glitches in the first minutes of the scheduled start time on Monday evening.
Users trying to log on to the event, which was scheduled to begin at 8 p.m. ET, reported that they could not join X’s livestream platform.
The billionaire Tesla and SpaceX CEO blamed a cyberattack for freezing the X platform. CNBC was not immediately able to independently verify whether or not an attack took place, but other parts of X continued working throughout the glitches.
After nearly an hour of troubleshooting, the conversation finally began in