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X Suffers Widespread Outage
16 Jan
Summary
- Social media site X experienced a significant outage on Friday morning.
- Over 50,000 outage reports were logged on Downdetector.
- The disruption occurred amid scrutiny over AI-generated content on X.
The social media platform X, under the ownership of Elon Musk, experienced a significant service disruption on Friday morning. Reports of the outage surged shortly before 7 a.m. PT, with over 50,000 user reports logged on the outage tracking website Downdetector. The issue appeared to be resolved within roughly 90 minutes.
Grok, Elon Musk's AI chatbot, also registered a smaller surge in outage reports during the same period. Minor increases in outage reports were also observed for internet service providers Cloudflare and Amazon Web Services, potentially indicating a broader, albeit less severe, digital infrastructure impact.
This widespread outage at X occurs at a time when the company is facing considerable public and regulatory attention. The scrutiny centers on concerns over the generation and dissemination of nonconsensual sexualized imagery, reportedly produced by Grok and shared on the X platform.
