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NurPhoto through Getty Images<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\nElon Musk’s interview of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump was marred by technical points that the tech billionaire blamed on a cyber assault. <\/p>\n
The prolonged dialog, which Mr Musk mentioned was aimed toward \u201copen-minded independent voters\u201d, started greater than 40 minutes late as many customers struggled to realize entry. <\/p>\n
Mr Musk, who owns X, previously Twitter, mentioned a distributed denial of providers (DDoS) assault “saturated all of our data lines”.<\/p>\n
Near the top of the two-hour dialog, he doubled down on his endorsement of Trump and referred to as on reasonable voters to again the Republican’s marketing campaign. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\u201cHere\u2019s to an exciting, inspiring future that people can look forward to and be optimistic and excited about what happens next,” Mr Musk said. <\/p>\n
The conversation got off to a less auspicious start. <\/p>\n
More than 20 minutes into when the conversation was actually due to begin, as many\u00a0users\u00a0struggled to access\u00a0the\u00a0livestream, Mr Musk blamed “a massive DDOS attack on X” for the problems in a post. <\/p>\n
Distributed denial of services attacks – or DDoS attacks – are attempts to overload a website to make it hard to use or inaccessible.<\/p>\n
Once the conversation between the two men began, Mr Musk said the alleged cyber attack showed there is opposition in the US to hearing what Trump had to say.<\/p>\n
It is not clear what caused the technical problems with the X audio conversation or who may have been behind any alleged attack. <\/p>\n
\u201cA DDoS attack sends a very large number of signals to an online target to disrupt it,\u201d Anthony Lim, Director of the Centre for Strategic Cyberspace and International Studies in Singapore, advised the Daily News.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is unlikely it would affect only one single service or feature on a website.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mr Lim added that it is possible that a large number of people trying to listen could have temporarily crashed the service.<\/p>\n
Mr Musk said in a subsequent post that the system was tested with \u201c8 million concurrent listeners\u201d before his live chat.<\/p>\n
During the conversation, X Spaces showed about one million people listening in.<\/p>\n
The glitchy beginning was reminiscent of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’ entry into the White House race in May 2023, which was held on X and saw the livestream malfunction.<\/p>\n
The conversation on X comes as Trump, the former president and Republican presidential nominee, is trying to reset his re-election campaign. <\/p>\n
Opinion polls suggest that the Democratic nomination of Vice-President Kamala Harris has tightened the close race for the White House. <\/p>\n
The Harris campaign is riding a wave of momentum after she became the Democratic standard-bearer when President Joe Biden dropped out of the race last month. <\/p>\n
Next week, Ms Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, could get a further bump from the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.<\/p>\n
The Trump campaign has been needling Ms Harris for not doing interviews and for taking few questions from reporters since accepting the nomination last month. <\/p>\n
On Monday, Trump said “it is good to have a discussion board like this” on X, where he could speak at length. <\/p>\n
Mr Musk, whose platform hosted the event, has become an increasingly influential voice in politics. <\/p>\n
He has more than 190 million followers on X, where he regularly engages in political controversies. <\/p>\n
He has also recently become involved in a new political committee supporting Trump’s campaign. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n
The relationship between the two men has shifted over the years and they have traded online barbs in the past. <\/p>\n But Monday’s conversation between the two was chummy and never adversarial.<\/p>\n Trump, who has been sceptical of electric vehicles and previously vowed to roll back federal subsidies, praised car-maker Tesla, which Mr Musk also owns. <\/p>\n He recently said he had \u201cno choice\u201d but to support EVs because of Mr Musk’s endorsement and called the Telsa product “nice” on Monday. <\/p>\n Mr Musk said he would be willing to offer a Trump administration help on a proposed “authorities effectivity fee”. <\/p>\n Ahead of the high-profile conversation on the social media site, which could be accessed by European users, EU industry chief Thierry Breton told Mr Musk in a letter that he must comply with EU digital content law. <\/p>\n The EU suspects X of breaching its rules in areas including countering illegal content and disinformation.<\/p>\n In response, X chief govt Linda Yaccarino referred to as it \u201can unprecedented attempt to stretch a law intended to apply in Europe to political activities in the US”. <\/p>\n “It also patronizes European citizens, suggesting they are incapable of listening to a conversation and drawing their own conclusions.\u201d<\/p>\n Monday marked something of a return to X\/Twitter for Trump, who was removed from the platform shortly after the 6 January 2021 Capitol riot. <\/p>\n Besides a flurry of campaign advertisements on Trump’s account on Monday, he had only posted once – his mug shot and a link to his campaign site – a year ago after Mr Musk reactivated his X account in 2022. <\/p>\n It’s not clear whether Trump, who frequently posts on his Truth Social site, would continue to post more frequently on X. <\/p>\n Monday’s interview touched on a range of issues, from the assassination attempt on Trump last month at a Pennsylvania rally, to his wanting the US to get an “Iron Dome” missile defence system like the one in Israel, and a key plank of his campaign – immigration. <\/p>\n Trump also mused about closing the federal Department of Education and moving that responsibility to the states as one of his first acts if he wins the election in November. <\/p>\n The Republican candidate additionally spoke of Mr Biden’s choice to exit the race after a disastrous debate efficiency and strain from susceptible Democrats lawmakers, characterising it as \u201ca coup”. <\/p>\n Mr Biden, in a weekend interview with CBS, said he left because feared that the intraparty battle over his candidacy would be a “real distraction” ahead of the election. <\/p>\n In a statement after the event, the Harris campaign described Mr Musk and Trump as two “self-obsessed rich guys who will sell out the middle class and who cannot run a livestream in the year 2024\u201d.<\/p>\n Jo\u00e3o da Silva contributed to this report<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n [ad_2] [ad_1] NurPhoto through Getty Images Elon Musk’s interview of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump was marred by technical points that the tech billionaire blamed on a cyber assault. The prolonged dialog, which Mr Musk mentioned was aimed toward \u201copen-minded independent voters\u201d, started greater than 40 minutes late as many customers struggled to realize entry. 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