NEW YORK POST
Elon Musk claims the US government had “full access” to direct, private messages sent through Twitter — a revelation that he said “blew my mind.”
“The degree to which government agencies effectively had full access to everything that was going on on Twitter blew my mind,” Musk told Tucker Carlson of Fox News in an interview that will air in two separate segments Monday and Tuesday evening.
“I was not aware of that,” Musk told Carlson. A snippet of the interview was posted to Twitter.
“Would that include people’s DMs?” Carlson asked.
“Yes,” Musk replied without elaborating.
In a separate snippet, Musk warned of the dangers of artificial intelligence, saying that the new technology could potentially pose a threat to civilization.
“AI is more dangerous than, say, mismanaged aircraft design or production maintenance, or bad car production in the sense that it has the potential — however small one may regard that probability, but it is non-trivial — it has the potential for civilizational destruction,” Musk said.
Musk acquired Twitter for $44 billion last fall.
He then proceeded to lay off more than 70% of the company’s employees.
The Tesla mogul bought the social media site and vowed to allow nearly unfettered speech..
Musk also sought to expose the company’s previous management for its ties to government agencies, which demanded that certain content be flagged and even banned.
Several journalists said to have been sympathetic to Musk released a series of internal documents known as the “Twitter Files,” which revealed the extent to which the social media site’s prior regime suppressed the spread of content such as The Post’s reporting on the Hunter Biden laptop.
Matt Taibbi, the author and former Rolling Stone journalist, reported that the decision to censor The Post’s story on the laptop was made “at the highest levels of the company.”
