X is down for the second time this week

Elon Musk’s X is facing a second widespread outage this week.

The site and app, formerly known as Twitter, either wouldn’t load at all or crashed into life briefly before popping up with error messages like gang signs.

the site Down detector It shows nearly 80,000 reports of X crashing starting around 10 a.m. ET, and it remains down as of this writing.

This is it Second major outage in X This week, after a previous technical issue. This comes as the platform faces criticism after Grok, xAI’s chatbot built into Manipulating real images of womenEven children, in sexual and violent images without their consent.

when Musk took over Twitter in 2022he Laying off a lot of employeesThis raises concerns that the site will not be able to function normally or adequately monitor harmful content. The site has remained largely operational, despite its existence Noticeable outages last year.

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