Tue Apr 18, 2023 – 10:32 am EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — In a highly anticipated interview with Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson, Elon Musk revealed that United States government agencies had access to private messages sent on Twitter.
“The degree to which various government agencies had effectively full access to everything that was going on at Twitter blew my mind,” Musk told Carlson. “I was not aware of that.”
“Would that include people’s DMs [Direct Messages]?” the Fox News host asked.
“Uh, yes,” Musk replied. “Yes, because the DMs are not encrypted.”
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Carlson pointed out that “a lot of well-known people — reporters talking to their sources, government officials talking to each other, the rich people in the world — they are DMing each other. And the assumption obviously was incorrect about that that was private, but that was being read by various governments.”
Musk confirmed that Carlson was correct. “Scary,” the Fox News star said.
The Twitter owner said that the platform plans to introduce a feature where users can encrypt their DMs, so that not even he could access them when someone “holds a gun to my head.”
Earlier in the interview
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