Elon Musk, owner of X, on March 10 alleged that the social media platform was facing outages because of a \”massive cyberattack\” The billionaire owner and ally of US President Donald Trump also claimed that a large, coordinated group or a country was involved in the cyberattack against X. According to Downdetector, Musk-owned X was facing intermittent outages on Monday, restricting thousands of US and global users from accessing the platform. The cause of the outage was not immediately clear, and X did not respond to a Reuters request for comment. The number of outage reports rose to around 26,579 after falling briefly, user-submitted data on the outage-tracking website showed. More than 10,800 X users in the UK also reported the outage earlier in the day, according to the website. The total number of outages was as high as 40,000 earlier in day, the website said, with the number of users affected by the outage rising to more than 26,000.