The Daily Beast uses "Hot Mic" in a headline to describe someone saying things with a microphone in a known public place into known records
The Daily Beast uses "Hot Mic" in a headline to describe someone saying things with a microphone in a known public place into known records
www.thedailybeast.com /hot-mic-catches-republican-saying-trump-is-in-the-epstein-files
as opposed to "an apparent error in which a microphone is switched on or remains on, especially without the speaker realizing"