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Trump to be interviewed by Elon Musk tonight
Fresh News nationwide correspondent Bryan Llenas studies on the anticipation surrounding former President Trump’s no-holds barred interview with Elon Musk on X on ‘Special Report.’
Critics railed in opposition to the technical difficulties that plagued X proprietor Elon Musk’s highly-anticipated interview with former President Trump.
X customers rushed to affix Trump’s “Space” the place he was supposed to talk with the billionaire tech tycoon on the 2024 race. However, the “Space” instantly crashed as a result of inflow of customers, providing the message “This Space is unavailable.”
Moments later, Musk took to X, telling customers, “There appears to be a massive DDOS [distributed denial-of-service] attack on 𝕏. Working on shutting it down. Worst case, we will proceed with a smaller number of live listeners and post the conversation later.”
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Elon Musk’s X was plagued with technical malfunction as he was set to interview former President Trump. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
In response to at least one X person who speculated that Democrats had been concerned in technical meltdown, Musk wrote “Yeah.”
Musk later insisted X was technically ready for the Trump interview, posting “We tested the system with 8 million concurrent listeners earlier today.”
“We will proceed with the smaller number of concurrent listeners at 8:30 ET and then post the unedited audio immediately thereafter,” Musk adopted.
Former President Trump was set to make a grand return to X after he was beforehand banned from the platform earlier than Musk purchased it, then referred to as Twitter. ( Bill Pugliano/Getty Images)
The interview formally went underway after roughly 40 minutes. At least 1 million X customers joined the start of the relaunched dialog.
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Critics reacted to the viral controversy.
“Please let Elon know we can’t join,” billionaire investor Bill Ackman instructed Trump.
“Trump was fuming at the NABJ when their technical difficulties kept him waiting for 30 minutes Now he’s kept waiting again, and ofc a lot of the coverage is going to focus on the technical meltdown no matter what he says. He won’t be happy,” Breaking Points co-host Saagar Enjeti wrote.
New York Times reporter Jonathan Swan took a swipe at Musk’s earlier promise when he stated “Entertainment guaranteed!”, replying “I’ll take functionality guaranteed!”
Musk alleged X was hit with a “DDOS” [distributed denial-of-service] assault. (Photo by Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto through Getty Images)
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The social media meltdown equally occurred final 12 months in the course of the presidential marketing campaign launch of Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who additionally had an interview set with Musk on his platform (then Twitter) however had technical malfunctions resulting from excessive “Spaces” visitors.
The interview was speculated to mark Trump’s grand return to the platform after the corporate banned him in 2021 after the January 6 riot. Shortly after Musk purchased Twitter and adjusted the corporate’s title to X, he reinstated Trump’s account.
