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Failed ex-FM claims Musk ‘scours’ his messages

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Hapless Humza Yousaf certainly picks his battles – and this week the former first minister has taken aim at Elon Musk. On a Tortoise media podcast, Yousaf rather pompously claimed that the tech billionaire was part of a campaign to ‘besmirch’ his reputation and insisted he was ‘certain’ the Twitter CEO had access to his private messages on the social media app. Er, right. Talk about delusions of grandeur, eh?

When quizzed on whether he believed the Twitter owner had private message access, Yousaf was adamant to listeners:

I’m certain he absolutely does and I’m certain he scours the private messages of those that he sees as a threat. In fact, I’m certain he has a whole team of people who are now looking at any information they can gather on me and try to use it to besmirch my reputation, and he’ll use any nefarious tactics in order to do that.

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