"I’m certain he scours the private messages"
Humza Yousaf has accused Elon Musk of accessing his private messages on X as part of a campaign to “besmirch” his reputation.
Scotland’s former first minister claimed Musk “scours” the private messages of people he sees as a threat.
Yousaf also said he has “no doubt” the billionaire is racist.
The two men have been feuding and during the 2024 summer riots, Yousaf labelled Musk a “race baiter” and claimed he was “one of the most dangerous men on the planet”.
Musk replied by claiming Yousaf is “obviously super racist against white people”.
Mr Musk said: “I dare that scumbag to sue me. Go ahead, make my day.”
He then added: “Legal discovery will show that however big a racist he’s been in public communications, he is vastly worse in private communications.”
Humza Yousaf said the businessman’s comments were an attempt to “threaten and intimidate” him.
On Tortoise Media’s Elon’s Spies podcast, Humza Yousaf addressed whether he believes Elon Musk had access to his X messages:
“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.”
The podcast said it understood Musk had denied accessing private messages on X.
Yousaf continued: “Let me be clear that Elon Musk could have trillions, let alone billions, and he wouldn’t be able to shut me up.
“We’re going to continue to call out his racist, far-right white supremacist tendencies.
“But that caught me by surprise and I started to wonder what it was he was possibly talking about.
“I thought well okay, this is somebody who obviously has access to Twitter DMs (direct messages) or X DMs, and that should ring alarm bells for people.
“Your private conversations you have in your DMs, how secure are they?”
Yousaf accused Musk of making a “pointed accusation” and added that his followers had encouraged him to publicly release the messages.
He said: “I’m thinking, I’ve been on Twitter for a long time, have I made an off-colour joke? Have I said something in a private communication?
“So, I thought I better do the belt and braces thing, and as I say there was nothing there, and unsurprisingly so.
“But here is somebody who is basically saying to me by the way ‘you better watch out. I’m going to release stuff on you and it’s going to make your life hell’.”
Repeating his previous remarks that Elon Musk is “one of the most dangerous men on the planet”.
He added: “He’s unaccountable, one of the wealthiest, by some accounts, the wealthiest man, an individual on the planet.
“He does what he wants, says what he wants and does not care about the consequences.”
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