Musk lying about a ddos attack to account for the Trump interview glitch/40 minute delay

Anything to shift the blame away from his rickety platform, a platform he strip-mined upon taking control of the enterprise with great glee & triumphalism. It hasn't gone well :

Companies that monitor the internet for unusual bursts of traffic did not report anything out of the ordinary.

Musk posted that he had tested the system’s ability to handle 8 million simultaneous connections, but that test might not have reflected realistic conditions.

Musk and his followers on X let fly Monday with wild accusations and theories without offering any evidence beyond the crash and his words. The “deep state” FBI and CIA were suppressing the conversation, one said, or it was the Democrats desperate to silence Trump. Some assertions gaining the most views came from far-right influencers and attention seekers who have thrived on Musk’s platform by posting falsehoods and speculation in the past.

Others were from fellow technology investors such as Zynga founder Mark Pincus, who posted: “Its Dems fighting to ‘save’ Democracy from two massive disrupters!” Musk responded: “Yeah.” Pincus on Tuesday said he had been joking.

An attack would be the only way for Musk to allocate responsibility for the long delay away from his own platform. Other companies can live-stream simultaneously to 1 million people, as the Spaces event eventually did. But accommodating that number of listeners clearly caused problems for X.

Most kinds of DDoS should have been easy for X to master, former staffers and experts said.

“By the time there’s something [so large] they actually shouldn’t be able to handle, it should be melting bits of the internet. And no one was seeing that happen,” the former X engineer said, speaking on the condition of anonymity to avoid retribution.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/08/14/experts-doubt-musk-cyberattack-claim/