Surprise Attack on Interview Between Elon Musk and Donald Trump

The highly anticipated conversation between presidential candidate Donald Trump and Elon Musk suddenly encountered a problem right before the scheduled time.

Surprise Attack On Interview Between Elon Musk And Donald Trump

Elon Musk, the owner of the platform X (formerly known as Twitter), declared that the social media network was hit by a Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack right before the scheduled interview with presidential candidate Donald Trump.

It seems X is facing a massive DDoS attack. We are working to mitigate it,

Musk posted on X on August 12.

A DDoS attack aims to overwhelm the system with large amounts of traffic, causing disruption and preventing legitimate users from accessing the service.

This incident occurred as multiple technical issues affected the live X Space conversation between Musk and Trump, scheduled for 8:00 PM Eastern Time US (00:00 UTC). Many X users complained they were unable to join.

Elon Musk's announcement about DDOS attack
Elon Musk’s announcement about DDOS attack

The site displayed a “not available” message, but around 120,000 people still managed to follow. In a separate post, Musk mentioned that X had tested the system earlier in the day with 8 million concurrent listeners.

Musk finally started the interview shortly after 8:30 PM Eastern Time. He had earlier announced that the interview would “proceed with a smaller number of live listeners,” with an unedited recording to be posted “immediately thereafter.”

Opening the interview, Musk remarked:

As this attack demonstrates, there’s a lot of opposition to what Donald Trump has to say.

During the interview, Elon Musk and Donald Trump discussed various issues such as Trump’s recent assassination attempt, illegal immigration, current conflicts, US relations with other countries, inflation, environment, climate, drugs, medicine, and even Vice President Kamala Harris.

Notably, the two did not discuss Bitcoin or crypto, despite Trump previously speaking at the Bitcoin 2024 Conference and Elon Musk’s known support.

Related: Trump Sons Promote Crypto and DeFi

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  1. Avatar of Erisa Tuuga
    Erisa Tuuga

    Cyber attackers MUST be punished

  2. Avatar of Ubbah Aliyu Musa Muhammad
    Ubbah Aliyu Musa Muhammad

    Yes is good future’s really!

    muhammad.ubbah5@gmail.com

  3. Avatar of wisdom okpe
    wisdom okpe

    It’s obvious that USA is among the top ten most corrupt country in the world
    And is one the country in the world that every other countries are looking up to

    Sad truth

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