The social media site X is experiencing a "major outage," reported The Independent on Monday, and it has become another red flag that billionaire Elon Musk is not the business "genius" that he has long been touted as.

Elon Musk said X was hit by a major cyber attack on Monday as outages plagued users of the platform once known as Twitter.

The cyberattack on X left users around the world unable to access the site, raising questions about whether Musk’s controversial decisions, including massive staff cuts, are contributing to the platform's vulnerabilities.