Business magnate and engineer Elon Musk recently sat down with Tucker Carlson in a two-part interview set to premier on Fox News at 8 p.m. ET tonight.
A teaser trailer released Sunday shows Musk telling Carlson that government agencies had access to everything on Twitter.
Including private direct messages between users.
The Washington Times has more on the surveillance efforts, which Musk says were far more invasive than he initially thought:
Mr. Musk did not identify which government agencies had access to people’s private information on Twitter, in the excerpt shared by Fox News on Monday ahead of the interview’s broadcast on “Tucker Carlson Tonight.”
Previously, Mr. Musk exposed the federal government’s efforts to pressure his predecessors at Twitter into censoring conservative and contrarian users, in a series of disclosures of internal company messages to select writers called the “Twitter Files.”
The U.S. government is far from the only nation interested in internal access to Twitter.
Former top Twitter security official Peiter “Mudge” Zatko told senators last year that he learned the company was penetrated by spies from China and India. Prior to Mr. Musk’s takeover, Mr. Zatko told lawmakers that Twitter ignored a warning about insider threats.
Part of Tucker’s interview will focus on Musk’s opinion of hypothetical threats to humanity from artificial intelligence. A.I. already plays a role in screening job applicants, diagnosing diseases and identifying criminal suspects.
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How many more were under the Feds target range
You mean Uncle Sam is now Big Brother?
So shocking, NOT. IMO