Elon Musk is a new owner of Twitter, which he has now taken as a private company. When he bought the company, he got the keys to all of his employees' DMs and direct messages. Matt Taiby and Barry Weiss are former correspondents or columnists from major media institutions.
Maybe not, but you’re going to be hearing about them for a while anyway. Republicans are saying they’ll use them to investigate the Biden administration.
This episode was produced by Amanda Lewellyn and Victoria Chamberlain, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, and hosted by Noel King.
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