The purported cyberattack comes amid a groundswell of unrest over his crusade to slash the federal government.

And owner Elon Musk has finally said what’s behind it. Well, what he thinks is behind it. The billionaire oligarch says X is being hit with a “major cyberattack,” though he didn’t present any evidence to back up his claim.

Billionaire Elon Musk has suggested that Monday's series of outages on X, formerly Twitter, may have been caused by a foreign country. Musk, who owns X, has recently been facing heavy domestic criticism tied to his role in a push by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to enact major government cost-cutting measures and mass firings of federal workers at the direction of President Donald Trump.