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Elon Musk Surprised by US Government’s “Total Access” to Twitter Data

Elon Musk was surprised by the penetration of government agencies on this social network, which he acquired last October

Elon Musktycoon and owner of Twitter For a few months, he said that the United States government had “total access” to the data of the social network -including the private messages of its users-, this during an interview with Tucker Carlson, presenter of Fox News.

“The degree to which various government agencies had practically total access to what was happening on Twitter impressed me; I was not aware of it,” said the also owner of Tesla and SpaceX, who also answered in the affirmative if this included the direct messages of users.

It is worth mentioning that it will be until Monday when Musk’s interview with Carlson, considered a conservative political commentator, is broadcast, but the latter published two previews through his own Twitter account.

In the other video, the billionaire highlights the risks of Artificial intelligence —a topic that companies like OpenAI and the same Tesla—because he believes that he could wipe out civilization in its entirety.

“Day IA [Inteligencia Artificial] it is more dangerous than just a mistake in aircraft design, product maintenance, or poor automotive production. […] Has the potential to destroy civilization“.

During an interview last Tuesday with the BBC, Elon Musk confessed that running Twitter has been “quite painful”, despite the fact that the company is close to breaking even after its acquisition, for 44 billion dollarsin October of last year.

“It’s quite a roller coaster,” he told the British channel, explaining that the mass layoffsfor which the workforce was reduced by about 1,500 employees from the 8,000 it had before, were necessary in its cost reduction plan.

“It’s not fun at all,” Musk clarified. “The company will go bankrupt if we don’t cut spending immediately. This is not a situation of whether you care or not. It is that if the whole ship sinks, then nobody has a job”.

However, he stated that the advertisers Those who had left the platform after its acquisition have since returned, adding that Twitter could achieve “positive cash flow” this quarter “if current trends continue.” Although, being a private company, the information about its finances cannot be verified.

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