X platform owner Elon Musk confirmed on Monday that the widespread outages of the social media app were due to an ongoing cyberattack.

"There was (still is) a massive cyberattack against 𝕏," he said. "

We get attacked every day, but this was done with a lot of resources. Either a large, coordinated group and/or a country is involved.

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The social media platform has faced considerable scrutiny from European leaders over its permissive speech policies and from left-wing hacktivist groups such as Anonymous.

The platform experienced considerable outages or slowed function in the middle of Monday.