Musk staffers highly doubt DDOS attack caused Trump interview failure: report

Elon Musk blamed the launch failure of his scheduled X Spaces livestream interview with Donald Trump on a distributed denial-of-service attack (DDOS), but some members of his staff called the explanation baloney, according to The Verge.

An unnamed staff member from the company told The Verge that there was a “'99 percent’ chance Elon was lying about an attack.”

Another source told The Verge that the technical malfunction was not due to a DDOS attack. Platform users noted that the rest of the social media service appeared to function while the livestream crashed.

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When the interview was scheduled to start at 8 p.m. users on X found they couldn't enter the livestream. The talk started more than 40 minutes late and was streamed to a smaller group.

In a post, Musk claimed to have tested the X Spaces stream with “8 million concurrent listeners” earlier Monday prior to the crash. The malfunction drew comparisons to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ X announcement of his presidential bid, which also crashed due to server overload, the Verge reports.