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The Elon Musk / Donald Trump interview on X started with an immediate tech disaster
Musk claims there was a DDOS attack on X — but The Verge is told there was not.
Those who did manage to get into the Space, including several Verge staffers, said it kicked off with lo-fi techno playing from Trump’s account for roughly 30 minutes. Eighteen minutes after the conversation was supposed to begin, Musk claimed that X was the target of a “massive DDOS attack” that had made it impossible for the Space to proceed as planned. The interview’s failure to get off the ground was reminiscent of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’s 2023 announcement on X that he was running for president, which also began with technical difficulties.
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