Elon Musk is asserting his social media site X has been deluged by a “massive cyberattack” Monday following weeks of upheaval about his cost-cutting crusade across the federal government.
Cybersecurity Concerns
The purported cyberattack, which has impacted users since at least Monday morning, has destabilized many features on his website like viewing posts and user profiles. “We get attacked every day, but this was done with a lot of resources,” Musk wrote on X. “Either a large, coordinated group and/or a country is involved.”
It comes days after people across the country took to the storefronts of his car company Tesla to protest Musk’s allegiance with the Trump administration. Some fired shots at an Oregon dealership last week, while others in Manhattan stormed a showroom.
The tech billionaire’s quasi-government agency, called the Department of Government Efficiency, has orchestrated cuts to thousands of federal government workers and has roiled many Americans impacted by the reductions. Now, scientific research at universities, cleanup services at national parks and efforts to curb bird flu have been diminished as the federal government looks to readjust after Musk’s hack-and-slash directive.
The tech mogul’s moves have caused fractures with some Cabinet members who have grown frustrated at DOGE for making haphazard cuts and impeding their work. Some agencies like the Agriculture Department have since rolled back thousands of terminations executed on the behest of Musk, and federal judges are debating the legality of these firings in cases that will likely ascend to the Supreme Court.
Since the beginning of President Donald Trump’s second term and Musk’s foray into politics, share prices for his electric car company dropped by over 46 percent. It’s a change of tune from Tesla’s infancy, when the electric cars were a beacon for liberals to gloat about their environmentalism. Now, they have become an extension of his ties with the Trump administration, which has prompted some to vandalize the vehicles with swastikas and Molotov cocktails.
In response to an online post about a user who said they wanted to vandalize a Tesla vehicle, Musk mused, “Why are liberals so violent?”
