Musk’s X posts on ketamine, Putin spur release of his security clearances
Text settings Story text Size Small Standard Large Width * Standard Wide Links Standard Orange * Subscribers only Learn more Minimize to nav Elon Musk’s social media posts helped The New York Times win its fight to secure a list detailing the billionaire’s top-secret security clearances after a US agency tried to block the disclosures by claiming that Musk had a right to privacy. In an opinion issued Wednesday, US District Judge Denise Cote said that Musk publicly discussing his security clearances on X—as well as his drug use and foreign contacts—tipped the balance so that the public’s substantial interest in the list the NYT sought clearly outweighed “any privacy interest” Musk may have. “To the extent Musk has a privacy interest in…
