Elon Musk's high-profile live interview with Donald Trump on the X platform suffered a technical glitch before it even started. After a delay of more than 40 minutes, the interview finally began.
The interview, which was originally scheduled to start at 8 pm local time on August 12, was postponed due to technical glitches. Many x users who tried to watch this interview tried to join the live broadcast room before the interview started, but received the prompt "This live broadcast room is not available" and could not successfully enter the live broadcast room.
Musk said: "x appears to have been hit by a massive ddos network attack , and we are working hard to stop it. In the worst case scenario, we will continue the interview with Trump with only a small live audience and in The conversation will be published later.
He said that their team is working hard to stop this attack. In the worst-case scenario, they plan to continue the interview with Trump with only a small audience and release the full transcript of the conversation later.
Musk later said that the live interview with Trump will start at 8:30 pm Eastern Time and will reduce audience participation; the unedited audio of the conversation with Trump will be released later.
After a delay of more than 40 minutes, Musk finally began to speak in the live broadcast room. He said that x had overcome a cyber attack, and his interview with Trump began.
" My apologies for the delayed launch. Unfortunately our servers were hit by a massive ddos (distributed denial of service) attack and all of our data lines were saturated...basically hundreds of gigabytes "The data is saturated," Musk said, "We think we have overcome most of the difficulties and now it's time to move on."
In response to a request for comment from the media, a Trump campaign spokesman pointed to Musk's post on x accusing the potential cyberattack.
The interview was billed as a hot-button event designed to help Trump revitalize his base. It is worth mentioning that Musk said that this interview was impromptu, without a script, and the content had no theme restrictions. After
was almost silent on x for more than three years, Trump posted several posts on the social platform.
Trump had previously used Twitter during his tenure as president and was later banned from the platform for life for inciting a riot at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. Musk restored Trump's account after acquiring Twitter in late 2022 (later renaming it x). However, Trump has only posted one mugshot on the platform since then - his admission photo taken in an Atlanta prison in August last year.
Now, Musk has publicly endorsed Trump and pledged to donate to support his re-election. Trump's posts on x help drive traffic to a platform that has been losing advertisers and users.
Trump posted five posts to his account on Monday, including several campaign messages and a promotional copy of his interview with Musk.
According to CCTV News on August 9, US presidential election candidates Trump and Harris have agreed to hold a debate hosted by the American Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) on September 10.
Trump expressed his willingness to hold three debates with Harris on Fox News, NBC and ABC in September. But the Harris campaign has not confirmed that.
On July 21, US President and Democrat Biden announced that he would give up running for re-election under the pressure of political and public opinion, and supported Harris to become the Democratic presidential candidate. Harris quickly gained widespread support within the Democratic Party. On the Republican side, former U.S. President Trump became the party’s presidential candidate for the third time.
Source: Daily Economic News, CCTV News, Financial Associated Press, public information
