Elon Musk’s interview of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump was marred by technical issues that the tech billionaire blamed on a cyber attack, the BBC reports.
The lengthy conversation, which Mr Musk said was aimed at “open-minded independent voters,” began more than 40 minutes late as many users struggled to gain access.
Mr Musk, who owns X, formerly Twitter, said a distributed denial of services (DDoS) attack “saturated all of our data lines.”
Near the end of the two-hour conversation, he doubled down on his endorsement of Trump and called on moderate voters to back the Republican’s campaign.
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.
It is not clear what caused the technical problems with the X audio conversation or who may have been behind any alleged attack.
