{"id":1915738,"date":"2023-04-17T00:40:44","date_gmt":"2023-04-17T04:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elon-musk-says-government-access-to-twitter-blew-his-mind\/"},"modified":"2023-04-17T00:42:19","modified_gmt":"2023-04-17T04:42:19","slug":"elon-musk-says-government-access-to-twitter-blew-his-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elon-musk-says-government-access-to-twitter-blew-his-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk Says Government Access To Twitter \u2018Blew\u2019 His Mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Felon-musk-says-government-access-to-twitter-blew-his-mind%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1915738&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a> CEO <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/elon-musk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Elon Musk<\/a> says the level of access government agencies had within the social media giant came as a massive shock to him.<\/p>\n<p>The digital billionaire said the things in a fresh clip promoting an interview he had with Fox News host <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/tucker-carlson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tucker Carlson<\/a>. He had just finished taking over Twitter about six months ago.<\/p>\n<p>He said,&#8221; The extent to which different government agencies effectively had complete access to everything going on at Twitter blew my mind.&#8221; &#8221; I was hardly conscious of that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Carlson asks if public access included direct messages at the end of the brief time, to which Musk responds,&#8221; Yes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"zxx\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BilzqLGZsC\">pic.twitter.com\/BilzqLGZsC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TuckerCarlson\/status\/1647675042426232832?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 16, 2023<\/a>, Tucker Carlson(@ TuckerCarlson )<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The time was posted on Sunday by Carlson&#8217;s&#8217;s verified Twitter account, sparking interest for the exam that will be broadcast on&#8221; Tucker CarlSON Tonight&#8221; on Monday. The time did not indicate whether Musk specifically lists any agencies.<\/p>\n<p>Personal information will not be made public to law enforcement, according to the Twitter website,&#8221; unless it is required by appropriate legal procedure, such as a subpoena, court order, some legitimate legal process, or in response to an appropriate emergency request.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The site adds that requests for the contents of communications, including clear messages,&#8221; need a legitimate search warrant or equivalent from an agency with good jurisdiction over Twitter.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Musk, who was already well-known in the technology sector with firms like Tesla and SpaceX, acquired Twitter in late October after completing a$ 44 billion acquisition. Musk promoted what has come to be known as&#8221; The Twitter Files&#8221; internal company documents and communications that have been made public over the course of several installments by various journalists in the months that followed.<\/p>\n<p>The censorship of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/new-twitter-files-show-fbi-paid-twitter-millions-influenced-execs-to-censor-hunter-biden-laptop-story\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hunter Biden laptop story<\/a> in the run-up to the 2020 election, as well as awareness by the government, plans, and elected leaders, including the practice of Rep. Adam Schiff( D &#8211; CA) making break calls aimed at specific accounts, were among the revelations that revealed top Twitter brass&#8217; deliberations about how to handle hot-button issues.<\/p>\n<p>Previous Twitter employees who testified before Congress denied there was collusion with the authorities, despite Republican lawmakers&#8217; concerns about irresponsible coordination and the suppression of free speech.<\/p>\n<p>Following discoveries about emails with Twitter employees flagging articles that may have violated the company&#8217;s&#8217;s terms of service, the FBI issued a statement in December denouncing&#8221; conspiracy theorists and others are feeding the American public misconceptions with the sole purpose of trying to discredit the company.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Federal Trade Commission is looking into the widespread layoffs at Twitter following Musk&#8217;s&#8217;s invasion and whether the company has the resources to protect users&#8217; privacy in addition to a Securities Exchange Commission investigation into Musk. According to a lawsuit filed last month, Twitter was already investigated by the Justice Department, according to The New York Times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter CEO Elon Musk says the level of access government agencies had within the social media giant came as a massive shock to him. The tech billionaire, who completed his takeover of Twitter roughly six months ago, made the comments in a new clip advertising an interview he did with Fox News host Tucker Carlson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1588,"featured_media":1915739,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[8343,11122,4249,5045,8043,4250,4253],"class_list":["post-1915738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-access","tag-blew","tag-elon","tag-government","tag-mind","tag-musk","tag-twitter"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1915738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1588"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1915738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1915738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1915739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1915738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1915738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1915738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}