Elon Musk’s X Suffers Widespread Outage

It’s not simply you. Elon Musk’s social media platform X is presently struggling outages in quite a lot of places throughout the globe.

Stories submitted to DownDetector present tens of hundreds of individuals have struggled to load X, with specific hotspots in New York, Los Angeles, Dallas, and Atlanta. The issues appear to have began round 10 a.m. ET and are ongoing on the time of this writing.

DownDetector additionally reveals that persons are having issue with xAI’s chatbot Grok, although there appear to be fewer stories of issues there. Grok was on the middle of an issue in current weeks after customers began making non-consensual sexualized imagery of ladies and women. Some international locations, together with Malaysia and Indonesia, have banned Grok outright over the difficulty, and several other international locations have launched investigations.

Attorneys Normal in California and Arizona have additionally reportedly launched investigations into Grok. The corporate has restricted use of the instrument, and posters on r/Grok have complained this week that they’ll not make NSFW materials like they might earlier than.

X didn’t reply to questions emailed on Friday, although that’s nothing new. Musk despises the information media and used to have an auto-responder that simply despatched a poop emoji to all questions from journalists. We didn’t get a poop emoji, however his firm, xAI, nonetheless does one thing comparable, sending the phrase “Legacy Media Lies” robotically to all reporter questions.

Gizmodo will replace this text on the off probability we hear again from X.