Elon Musk’s social media platform crashed on Monday, nevertheless it’s positively not Elon Musk’s fault.
Customers of X reported a worldwide outage all through the day, through DownDetector, and Musk confirmed that the location continued to have points all through the afternoon—however he gained’t be taking accountability.
The billionaire claimed that the low connectivity was brought on by a “massive cyberattack” allegedly orchestrated by a “large, coordinated group and/or a country,” and that the corporate is “tracing” the so-called assault.
“There was (still is) a massive cyberattack against X. We get attacked every day, but this was done with a lot of resources. Either a large, coordinated group and/or a country is involved. Tracing …” he wrote.
And his conspiracies didn’t cease there.
“They want to silence you and this platform,” one consumer wrote.
“Yes,” Musk replied.
The social media platform Bluesky, which many customers switched to after Musk purchased Twitter and endorsed Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential marketing campaign, additionally skilled an outage on Monday, in accordance with DownDetector.
Musk has a historical past of blaming cyberattacks for technical points that had been seemingly simply the consequence of his personal inefficiency. In 2022 and 2023, he purchased X (previously Twitter) and gutted the location’s prime engineers.
And he made related claims in August 2024 throughout a Trump marketing campaign occasion that was delayed 45 minutes on account of connection issues, which Musk blamed on the “probability” of an assault earlier than admitting his technical failures.
“We also had some unforced errors ourselves. But good work by the X team fending off the attacks and fixing our mistakes! All’s well that ends well,” he added.
Whether or not or not X was really the goal of a large-scale cyberattack, the platform’s ongoing instability suggests a extra widespread difficulty: Musk’s inept management.
His SpaceX rocket launch epically failed on Thursday, with the Starship rocket blowing up. He’s additionally shedding billions in SpaceX contracts as buyers run for the hills.
In the meantime, Musk’s Tesla inventory dropped a staggering 15% by Monday afternoon—the bottom drop within the firm’s historical past. This comes after sweeping stories that present and potential clients are souring on the model on account of Musk’s federal authorities takeover, which resulted within the gutting of businesses and the firing of a whole lot of 1000’s of staff, together with veterans.
Anti-Musk protests have erupted outdoors of Tesla dealerships nationwide, and Tesla house owners have been expressing their purchaser’s regret with bumper stickers, like one that claims, “We bought this car before we knew.”
As Musk scrambles to regulate the narrative round X’s newest outage, he’s chosen to proceed his sample of deflecting blame onto made-up exterior threats. However his failure to acknowledge his ongoing mismanagement is turning into more and more tough for the general public to disregard.
