Elon Musk claims US government had 'full access' to private Twitter DMs

Twitter CEO Elon Musk claimed in an interview that the US government has "full access" to users' private direct messages, saying knowing that information blew his mind.

In an interview with Fox News, Musk said he was shocked to find out about the government's ability to read users' direct messages on his platform.

"The degree to which government agencies effectively had full access to everything that was going on on Twitter blew my mind," Musk, who recently founded an artificial intelligence company called X.AI, said in the interview set to air on Tuesday. "I was not aware of that."

Agencies