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Tech Takeover: Can Elon Musk direct a government?

Tech Takeover: Can Elon Musk direct a government?

Update: 2024-11-13
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Jess Kelly, Newstalk’s Technology Correspondent joins Kieran for this week’s Tech Takeover to discuss how Donald Trump has appointed tech mogul Elon Musk to head a new ‘Department of Government Efficiency’ in the United States, and what impact that may have.

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