Elon's Spies
The Slow Newscast
Alice Sandelson
4.6 • 894 Ratings
🗓️ 8 October 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
This is episode one of three. You can binge the entire series today by subscribing to Tortoise+ on Apple Podcasts or Spotify or by downloading the Tortoise app.
Elon Musk is one of the most powerful men in the world. He's a billionaire, the founder of SpaceX, Tesla and more. To his followers, he's a hero; to his critics, a far-right rabble rouser.
But for someone so public, there’s one part of his life that’s less well known.
Elon’s Spies investigates how this free-speech champion uses private investigators and surveillance to target everyone from whistleblowers at his companies, to online critics and people in his own life.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, it's Bashar here, and before this episode starts, I just wanted to say thank you. |
| 0:05.4 | It's five years since we made our first ever podcast. |
| 0:09.0 | Since we're at the beginning, we should, I think, do the polite thing and make some introductions here. |
| 0:12.8 | Bashar, do you want to start? |
| 0:13.7 | That was the beginning of our weekly investigative show, the Slow Newscast. |
| 0:17.3 | And while we have hopefully gotten a bit better at this since then, what we care about |
| 0:22.0 | hasn't changed, because we still investigate injustices. I was personally very struck by the |
| 0:29.0 | strength of your reporting, with the evidence in your reporting. We tell gripping stories with a |
| 0:33.6 | human heart. It's a screwed up crazy kind of love story, filled with death, lies and witness protection programs. |
| 0:41.4 | But still, it's a love story. |
| 0:43.9 | Since those early days, we've won landmark legal battles. |
| 0:47.8 | Hello. |
| 0:48.3 | I thought you'd like to know we've got the judgment. |
| 0:50.8 | It's going to be published. |
| 0:53.0 | Oh my God. |
| 0:54.0 | You can find our chart-topping and award-winning series on Tortus InVit. it's going to be published. Oh my God. |
| 0:58.9 | You can find our chart-topping and award-winning series on Tortus Investigates. |
| 1:03.0 | What I uncover is a global game of cat and mouse. |
| 1:05.0 | A catch-me-if-you-can. |
| 1:06.9 | And we've grown. |
| 1:10.7 | Hello, I'm Tominy and this is The Sense Maker from Tortus. On Tortus news, you can find |
| 1:12.3 | our daily and weekly shows that help make sense of the world. From Tortus, welcome to the news |
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