Former President Donald Trump held a groundbreaking interview with tech mogul Elon Musk on Monday.
The interview was set to begin at 8 PM ET however confronted a mysterious delay due to an enormous Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) assault that pushed the beginning time to roughly 8:45 PM ET.
The origins of this cyber disruption stay unclear.
Musk addressed the state of affairs on social media, stating, “There seems to be an enormous DDOS assault on X. Engaged on shutting it down. Worst case, we are going to proceed with a smaller variety of dwell listeners and put up the dialog later.”
Musk added, “We examined the system with 8 million concurrent listeners earlier at this time.”
We examined the system with 8 million concurrent listeners earlier at this time https://t.co/ymqGBFEJX0
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 13, 2024
Emmy-nominated investigative reporter Catherine Herridge wrote on X, “DDOS is a distributed denial of service assault. This can be a cyber assault designed to cripple a community useful resource (server) by overwhelming it with site visitors and making it unavailable for customers. Often a short lived + malicious try to disrupt regular site visitors. A forensic evaluation can, however not all the time, reveal supply/origination. For investigators, timing is usually a inform.”
Explainer…
DDOS is a distributed denial of service assault.
This can be a cyber assault designed to cripple a community useful resource (server) by overwhelming it with site visitors and making it unavailable for customers.
Often a short lived + malicious try to disrupt regular site visitors.
— Catherine Herridge (@C__Herridge) August 13, 2024
Regardless of the assault, the area managed to attract in 1.2 million listeners in the meanwhile.
Within the wake of this monumental occasion, emails from Harris and Walz’s marketing campaign groups reveal a state of utter panic.
They despatched an e-mail with the topic, “The 2 worst folks you already know are dwell this night.”
.@KamalaHarris is so triggered proper now. That is the headline of an e-mail her marketing campaign simply despatched out.
Democrats need all tech executives to be Democrats.
This can be a foreshadowing of how Kamala would goal & shut down conservative enterprise house owners like @elonmusk. pic.twitter.com/mrZo7teM5I
— Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) August 13, 2024
They accused Elon Musk of controlling the democracy in America.
“Proper now, Elon Musk is interviewing Donald Trump dwell on Twitter (we’re not calling it ‘X’). It’s not sufficient that Musk has pledged to donate hundreds of thousands of {dollars} to assist reelect Trump. He’s utilizing his bought platform—one of many largest social media websites on this planet—to unfold Trump’s unhinged and hateful agenda to hundreds of thousands of customers.”
The e-mail continued with an pressing plea for donations: “If that’s all you’ll want to hear, chip in $25 now to assist Kamala and Tim have the assets to answer their lies. In any other case, allow us to remind you why this can be a huge deal. The richest individual on this planet is a lackey for Staff MAGA. Musk already ruined Twitter by permitting hate speech and disinformation to flood the platform. Now, Musk is utilizing his huge fortune and broad attain to attempt to management our democracy.”
President Trump has been talking for over an hour to over 1,000,000 folks about his profitable agenda for the American folks.
Kamala is BIG MAD about this as she refuses to talk to the media, do an interview, and even clarify what platform she is even operating on.
So pathetic. pic.twitter.com/H9KO7bErs7
— Trump Battle Room (@TrumpWarRoom) August 13, 2024