Elon Musk's social media platform X experienced significant outages affecting users throughout the day. Musk attributed the downtime to a possible cyberattack, though no evidence was presented. The outages coincided with the NFL's free agency tampering window, leaving fans searching for information elsewhere.

Elon Musk faced scrutiny regarding his management of his businesses, particularly X, Tesla, and SpaceX, which experienced a cyberattack and outages, amidst stock declines and a rocket explosion.