Governmental surveillance of people on Twitter was much more invasive than folks understand, in accordance with Twitter proprietor Elon Musk.

Mr. Musk mentioned the federal government officers’ alarming entry to his social media platform prolonged to non-public direct messages between customers, in an interview airing on Monday with Fox News’ Tucker Carlson.

“The degree to which various government agencies effectively had full access to everything that was going on on Twitter blew my mind,” Mr. Musk mentioned within the interview. “I was not aware of that.”

“Would that include people’s DMs?” Mr. Carlson mentioned.

“Yes,” Mr. Musk replied.

Mr. Musk didn't establish which authorities companies had entry to folks’s non-public data on Twitter, within the excerpt shared by Fox News on Monday forward of the interview’s broadcast on “Tucker Carlson Tonight.”

Previously, Mr. Musk uncovered the federal authorities’s efforts to strain his predecessors at Twitter into censoring conservative and contrarian customers, in a collection of disclosures of inner firm messages to pick out writers referred to as the “Twitter Files.”

The U.S. authorities is way from the one nation inquisitive about inner entry to Twitter.

Former prime Twitter safety official Peiter “Mudge” Zatko informed senators final 12 months that he discovered the corporate was penetrated by spies from China and India. Prior to Mr. Musk’s takeover, Mr. Zatko informed lawmakers that Twitter ignored a warning about insider threats.

Separately, a federal jury discovered former Twitter worker Ahmad Abouammo responsible of spying for Saudi Arabia in August 2023. The ex-Twitter worker was charged in 2019 and finally discovered responsible on six counts that included conspiracy to commit wire fraud and cash laundering.

• This article was primarily based partly on wire-service stories.

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