Fox News host Tucker Carlson claimed Twitter “has been functioning as the arm of government intel agencies” by acting as an “intelligence gathering apparatus.” Carlson noted the numerous intelligence officials working for Twitter, one who was fired by Musk for reviewing documents before releasing them to journalists Matt Taibbi and Bari Weiss. “Spies have nothing to do with the mission of a social media company,” said Carlson. “The upper ranks of Twitter, we now know, were absolutely loaded with people who once did intel work for government agencies.”
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“And it wasn’t just American intel officers who found a home at Twitter. The company hired foreign spies too,” he said, reminding viewers of whistleblower Peiter Zatko, the company’s former head of security who was fired for reportedly complaining about foreign intelligence agencies’ control over Twitter operations. “According to Zatko, there were operatives on Twitter’s payroll from other governments including China and India and they had access to private user data,” Carlson said. “And those are just the details that we know about, Elon Musk was asked recently how many former FBI agents are currently employed by Twitter, but he wouldn’t say.” “It’s all pretty weird,” he continued. “Could it be that while the rest of us imagined that Twitter was a social media site, a place to vent about politics and sports and the Kardashians, could it be that Twitter was actually, maybe primarily, a propaganda tool and intelligence gathering apparatus for a variety of intel agencies?” “Well yes that’s possible,” the Fox News host said. “And you can see why various governments would want access to the information that Twitter had. Keep in mind that Twitter’s direct messages, the DM feature functioned for many years as a kind of private text app for some of the world’s most prominent people. So if you wanted to know that high government officials really thought, or if you wanted to know what well-informed sources were telling reporters off the record, you would want to see those messages.”
