African American billionaire and Twitter CEO Elon Musk claimed that several United States federal government agencies had “full access” to Twitter users’ direct messages prior to his acquisition of the social media company during an interview with Fox News host Tucker Carlson that is set to air on Monday night.
“Various government agencies effectively had full access to everything that was going on Twitter. I was not aware of that,” Musk told Carlson in a clip from the interview posted online in advance of the airtime.
“Did that include people’s DMs,” Carlson asked. “Yes,” Musk said in the preview.
BREAKING: In Tucker Carlson’s interview with Elon Musk, the Twitter CEO doubles down on the Twitter Files, saying multiple government agencies had “full access” to Twitter.
“Various government agencies effectively had full access to everything that was going on Twitter.”
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The Fox News Channel announced on Friday that it will be airing a two-part interview on Monday at 8 PM EST, where Musk and Carlson reportedly discuss “the controversy surrounding artificial intelligence and how it could change the planet forever.”
Musk will reportedly “share the inside story on Twitter and the drastic changes he is making to the social media platform, as well as the future of Tesla and the latest SpaceX launch.”
An additional clip of the interview that has been circulating online shows Musk explaining his belief that artificial intelligence could lead to the end of human civilization.
“AI is more dangerous than, say, mismanaged aircraft design or production maintenance or bad car production,” he said. “In the sense that it has the potential — however small one may regard that probability, but it is non-trivial — it has the potential of civilization destruction.”
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Carlson on Monday morning told Fox & Friends that the Twitter government access was not just limited to the U.S. government, but to foreign governments as well.
“Twitter is the smallest of the social media apps, but it’s the one used by the people with power,” Carlson said. “It’s everyone sitting on the set right now, it’s every government official, it’s, you know, it’s every head of state.”
“All of their private messages were being read, not just by the U.S. intel agencies, but by a bunch of different governments. I mean, that’s like an unbelievable fact,” Carlson said.
“The whole thing was a honey trap in order to surveil people and propagate propaganda. I didn’t really understand that,” he added.
Tucker Carlson Previews The Most Shocking Moment From His Interview With @elonmusk: The Extent Of Twitter's Surveillance
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