With millions of people worldwide trying to listen in on Elon Musk’s conversation with former President Donald Trump, it appears, according to a Musk tweet, X is under a “massive DDOS attack.” Literally, free speech is under attack. Reload for further updates.

The conversation has started. Elon Musk says that this massive DDOS attack illustrates how some bad actors clearly want to stop free speech.

There appears to be a massive DDOS 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.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 13, 2024

We tested the system with 8 million concurrent listeners earlier today https://t.co/ymqGBFEJX0

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 13, 2024

We will proceed with the smaller number of concurrent listeners at 8:30 ET and then post the unedited audio immediately thereafter https://t.co/oxF8PsNHnZ

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 13, 2024