Elon Musk has revealed that prior to his takeover, U.S. intelligence agencies had âfull accessâ to private messages on Twitter.
This comes after a series of reporting known as the âTwitter Filesâ that exposed government collusion with the platform, beginning with the coordinated effort to censor the Hunter Biden laptop story ahead of the 2020 election.
"The degree to which government agencies effectively had full access to everything that was going on on Twitter blew my mind," Musk said to Tucker Carlson, who asked in response "Would that include peopleâs DMs?"
"Yes," Musk replied. "Because the DM's aren't encrypted." Musk added that heâs working on a new feature too.
During a particularly amusing part of the interview, Musk revealed that the company is working just as usual despite 80% of its prior workforce being fired, laid off, or having quit voluntarily. â"It turns out you don't need that many people to run TwitterâŚ. [80% is not a lot] if youâre not trying to run some glorified activist organization.â
Some bloat in big tech does seem to be deflating, with the sector shedding 170,000 employees so far this year. What exactly most of them did all day still remains a mystery to most.Matt Palumbo is the author of Fact-Checking the Fact-Checkers: How the Left Hijacked and Weaponized the Fact-Checking Industry and The Man Behind the Curtain: Inside the Secret Network of George Soros
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