Elon Musk is facing questions about how much attention he is paying for his businesses as he advises President Trump on running the federal government.
Questions have been raised as Mr. Musk’s business empire – which includes Electric Car Manufacturer Tesla, Social Media Website and Rocket Maker Spacex – has gone to challenges.
On Monday, X users reported extensive interruptions. On the same day, Tesla’s shares fell more than 15 percent between concerns involving the decline in electric vehicle sales and politically driven protests against the manufacturer. And last week, a spacex missile exploded in Florida during the start, making some waste places.
Mr. Musk on Monday quickly blamed X issues in an online attack stemming from Ukraine, without providing evidence. He posted on X that the Democratic donors were responsible for planting protests against Tesla, again without evidence. In response to Spacex’s explosion, he said on X: “Rockets are difficult.”
Questions about Mr. Musk’s continued supervision for his companies are coming to the top as he spends more time in Washington at a major initiative to reduce costs known as the Government Efficiency Department, reducing thousands of government jobs and contracts. But even there, he is facing questions about his role after a controversial cabinet meeting last week in which Mr Trump limited Mr. Musk’s power to advise departments.
The effects of Mr Musk’s involvement are particularly prominent in Tesla. The company, where Mr. Musk is the chief executive, has faced protests and violence in some of her traders, including fired shots last week in a trade in Oregon. In Boston, someone set fire to Tesla charges, and protesters were arrested at a non -violent rally in a Tesla trade in Lower Manhattan.
Also last week, one report revealed that Tesla car sales in Germany, Europe’s largest electric vehicle market, plunged 76 percent in February compared to a year ago, sounding alarm bells for the entire European market. Monday shares-more than 50 percent lower than one of December’s midpoint-the largest for Tesla shares since 2020.
X, which Mr. Musk bought in 2022, experienced permanent interruptions on Monday, mainly in its application, according to the Dowestor, which tracks the reports of users from users to websites.
The first interruptions were reported before 6am in the East, after which the site and app seemed to resume operation. But around 10am, more problems emerged, and there were 41,000 interruption reports on X, according to Downector. Immediately after 11am, a third stroke of reported interruptions appeared, and the site remained down for many users.
“There was a massive online attack to try to overthrow the X system with IP addresses originating in the Ukraine area,” Mr. Musk during a Monday interview with Larry Kudlow to FOX.
But in a post on the Telegram messages app, a group of Hakim activist known as Dark Storm received credit on Monday for the cause of the interruption. Cyber criminals sometimes take steps to pursue their attacks through fake IP addresses in order to hide their identity, making it difficult to know with certainty which country an attack began.
A direct audio conversation on X between Mr. Musk and President Trump last year was interrupted by technical problems, which Mr. Musk also blamed for internet attacks without providing evidence.
Representatives for X did not answer questions immediately about what had happened on Monday or if the social media platform had turned into full operating. Mr. Musk did not immediately respond to a comment request.
The Internet Security and Infrastructure Security Agency, which is part of the Department of Internal Security, referred a request on Monday to comment on the issue for X.
Neil Vigor Contributed Reporting.