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Elon Musk, Donald Trump event on X crashes site, Tesla CEO blames cyberattack
CNBC ^ | Aug 12, 2024

Posted on 08/12/2024 5:46:06 PM PDT by 11th_VA

Elon Musk’s much-hyped interview of former President Donald Trump on the social media platform X was quickly derailed by technical glitches in the first minutes of the scheduled start time on Monday evening.

Social media 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.

Shortly after 8:20 p.m., Musk, the billionaire Tesla and SpaceX CEO, blamed a cyberattack for the freezing screens. He said that the company had tested the system with 8 million concurrent listeners earlier on Monday to preempt any technical errors and ensure X’s livestream capabilities could handle the event.

As the evening went on and the platform struggled to resolve the technical issue, Musk said that the interview would proceed at 8:30 E.T. with whichever users could successfully join the stream. He added that the “unedited audio” would be posted immediately afterwards.

In response to CNBC’s request for comment, Trump campaign spokesperson pointed to Musk’s X post blaming a potential cyberattack...

(Excerpt) Read more at cnbc.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: electioninterference; elonmusk; interview; musk; nevertrumpingtrolls; sabotage; sequoyah101; socialmedia; sushiman; sushimanchicomtroll; trump; trumpandmuskconvo; twitter; x
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1 posted on 08/12/2024 5:46:06 PM PDT by 11th_VA
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To: 11th_VA

On now


2 posted on 08/12/2024 5:46:50 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (🦅 MAGADONIAN ⚔️ )
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

I can’t get in


3 posted on 08/12/2024 5:47:24 PM PDT by 11th_VA (All Borders Matter)
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To: 11th_VA

It’s working now, we’re on RAV.


4 posted on 08/12/2024 5:47:56 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: 11th_VA

Delayed 1/2 hour as they addressed DDOS - on now with over 1M listening.


5 posted on 08/12/2024 5:47:58 PM PDT by reed13k
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To: 11th_VA

The same thing happened when DeSantis went on X with Musk right at the beginning of his campaign.


6 posted on 08/12/2024 5:48:07 PM PDT by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Biden regime.)
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To: 11th_VA

With the EU demanding Musk stop the event, and him telling them to shut the F*%k up, I 110% believe it was a mix if regular users and coordinated attacks.


7 posted on 08/12/2024 5:48:30 PM PDT by matt04 ( )
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To: 11th_VA

Post a link please!


8 posted on 08/12/2024 5:50:16 PM PDT by jroehl (And how we burned in the camps later - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - The Gulag Archipelago)
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To: 11th_VA

Live here
https://rumble.com/v5aqcsp-elon-musk-interviews-donald-trump-live-right-now-after-returning-to-x-watch.html


9 posted on 08/12/2024 5:50:31 PM PDT by janetjanet998 (Legacy media including youtube are the enemy of the people and must die)
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To: 11th_VA

I’m in. They are talking about the assassination. Trump praising docs and SS.


10 posted on 08/12/2024 5:50:49 PM PDT by JoSixChip (P.S. There’s a fed in that thread you’re in right now.)
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To: 11th_VA

Election interference by the same crowd of Lefties, Commies, Uniparty and Democrats that tried to assassinate President Trump.


11 posted on 08/12/2024 5:51:06 PM PDT by kiryandil (FR Democrat Party operatives! Rally in defense of your Colombian cartel stooge Merchan!)
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To: 11th_VA

https://x.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1823144316014911820


12 posted on 08/12/2024 5:51:17 PM PDT by Boomer (The dems and rinos (rat crap) have pegged the evil needle so hard, Satan now answers to them.)
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To: reed13k

Finally audio - but it keeps going in and out


13 posted on 08/12/2024 5:51:21 PM PDT by 11th_VA (All Borders Matter)
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To: jroehl

Here’s a few.

https://rumble.com/v5aq6e3-the-conversation-with-elon-musk-and-president-trrump.html
https://rumble.com/v5alsc4-elon-musk-interviews-donald-trump-mon-800-pm-et-.html
https://rumble.com/v5api43—live-watch-party-musk-interviews-trump-on-x.html
https://odysee.com/@AlexJonesChannel:c/15Aug23:b


14 posted on 08/12/2024 5:51:46 PM PDT by fretzer
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To: jroehl

On youtube


15 posted on 08/12/2024 5:52:47 PM PDT by waterhill (I Believe! Eph. 5:11)
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To: 11th_VA
Listening now.


16 posted on 08/12/2024 5:54:15 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: matt04

It could very much look like a DDOS attack if you legitimately gained large numbers of new users....like me, just to hear this. I mean between the threats from the UK and EU it just makes people want to hear it.


17 posted on 08/12/2024 5:54:46 PM PDT by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: 11th_VA

This is where Elon’s $44 billion purchase of Twitter pays off. Trump gets 1 million listeners and no network editing.

This is the way the major networks die.


18 posted on 08/12/2024 5:57:06 PM PDT by Forgiven_Sinner (Seek you first the kingdom of God, and all things will be given to you.)
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To: null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; bgill; bitt; ...

https://www.youtube.com/live/m8PzmQmv-7w

on now


19 posted on 08/12/2024 5:58:06 PM PDT by bitt (<img src=' 'width=30%>)
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To: 11th_VA

Conversation ? Trump rambling on and on and on ...


20 posted on 08/12/2024 5:58:12 PM PDT by sushiman
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