Elon Musk claimed on Fox News Monday that Ukrainians were responsible for X shutting down earlier in the day.
The leader of the controversial Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) told Larry Kudlow in an interview that a “massive cyber attack” linked to Ukrainian IP addresses was behind the widespread outages of his social media site.
“There was a massive cyber attack to try to bring down the X system with IP addresses originating in the Ukraine area,” Musk claimed.
Earlier in the day the tech billionaire had said in a post that the X shutdown was caused by a “coordinated group” or country, insisting it was “done with a lot of resources.”
Three outages hit X throughout the day, with one lasting two hours.
Hacking group Dark Storm claimed responsibility for the crashes but that hasn’t been verified or confirmed by Musk.
Musk admitted to Kudlow, the director of the National Economic Council in Donald Trump’s first administration before moving to Fox News, that the last few weeks with DOGE have been “tough sledding.”
Kudlow pointed out protests at Tesla stores, vandalism against Tesla vehicles, and arson at charging stations and dealerships.
“Shots fired, literally,” Musk responded.
He also noted that he’s continuing to run his companies during the DOGE work with “great difficulty.”
But he’s sticking to his DOGE mission, along with his crew of 100, soon to be 200, he told Kudlow.
Musk again complained about a “massive amount of fraud” in Social Security, this time claiming it adds up to “half a trillion dollars” — without providing any evidence whatsoever.
“It’s a huge number,” Kudlow responded.
“Yes,” said Musk.
