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Hey, everybody.

Welcome to the Buck Sexton Show.

Kara Frederick is with us now.

She's formerly of Facebook, currently with the Heritage Foundation, where she is

Director of Tech Policy.

We're going to talk to her about AI, about government snooping on social media platforms and

all kinds of good stuff, or bad stuff, but interesting stuff.

Kara, welcome.

Thanks for having me.

So let's start with Elon Musk recently spoke to Tucker Carlson on Fox Street, saw it, and he said not only was he, Elon flabbergasted by how much access the government had to the communications and just the general stuff going on at

the social media platform, Twitter, I'm sure it's true of other places, but that DMs were

easily accessible by the government to, what did you think of that one?

Yeah, so this, you know, honestly, it's not surprising. I mean, especially given the backgrounds that you and I had, there, we do know, first and

foremost, there are legitimate reasons, or at least there were legitimate reasons to, you know,

work with some federal entities when it comes to things like child sexual abuse material, you

know, sniffing out the bad guys.

I worked on foreign Islamic terrorism when I was working for a big tech platform and before.

So, you know, there are times when you want the government that is ostensibly there to

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