All about Elon Musk
All about Twitter
This Monday (12), the candidate for the presidency of the United States, Donald Trump, was to be interviewed by Elon Musk on X at 9 pm (Brasília time), but the event started late.
Musk had an interview scheduled with Trump (Image: Kemarrravv13/Shutterstock)
According to Musk, this happened because the social network was targeted by hackers, which prevented millions of people from accessing the platform’s Spaces function to follow the interview.
Musk claims: X was the target of a hacker attack
The South African billionaire claimed that X suffered a DDoS attack, which forces multiple accesses to a website until it is taken offline; In the case of the social network, it was overloaded, leaving Spaces unstable; Still, around a million people would have accessed the interview; Despite the unavailability, Musk promised to continue with the interview and to release the audio of the interview after it was over.
Read more:
“We will continue (the interview) with the lowest number of simultaneous listeners. We will then post the unedited audio immediately after,” he said.
Donald Trump has a habit of criticizing big tech (Image: Jonah Elkowitz/Shutterstock)
There appears to be a massive DDOS attack on 𝕏. Working on shutting it down.
Worst case, we will proceed with a smaller number of live listeners and post the conversation later.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 13, 2024
X claims to be the victim of a “massive” advertising boycott and files a lawsuit; understand
Elon Musk’s X (which you knew as Twitter) filed a federal antitrust lawsuit in the US on Tuesday (6) against a coalition of companies, claiming that it illegally boycotted the platform’s advertising sector.
The alleged companies include CVS Health, Mars and Unilever. In the lawsuit, the social network claims that the coalition conspired to withhold billions of dollars in a “massive advertising boycott” aimed at forcing the platform to maintain certain safety standards, according to the lawsuit filed in the Northern District of Texas, The Wall Street Journal reports.
Read the full article here
