Elon Musk will be its co-head advisory group of the Ministry of Government Efficiency (DOGE from the Department of Government Efficiency) which currently does not exist. So before the new department is created, Musk has begun singling out individual government employees and posting about them to his hundreds of millions of followers on X.
Earlier this week, as first reported from the Wall Street Journal, X user “datahazard” shared a screenshot on X highlighting the role of Ashley Thomas, Director of Climate Diversification at the US International Development Finance Corporation.
datahazard said:
"I don't think the US taxpayer should be paying for the employment of the Director of Climate Diversification." (I don't think the US Taxpayer should pay for the employment of a “Director of Climate Diversification (she/her)” at the US International Development Finance Corporation.)
Ο Musk reposted it, adding the comment “so many fake jobs” to a post with more than 33 million views.
As the WSJ notes, Musk's followers responded exactly as you'd expect: with a barrage of harassing memes aimed at Thomas, whose LinkedIn and Facebook pages are now private.
Everett Kelley, president of the American Federation of Government Employees, told the WSJ that Musk's positions are "aimed at instilling terror and fear among federal employees."
Musk has systematically turned the X into a megaphone for his opinions and has used it for whatever purpose he deems funny or useful.
Musk and DOGE co-head Vivek Ramaswamy have promised to do much of their work publicly (and sometimes with polls via X), which means we'll likely see this kind of behavior happen again.
I see a head-on attack on Elon Musk and X…. Propaganda works well.
You have panicked with the freedom of expression in X, probably you have learned with the absolute censorship and control of every medium...
You were not bothered by the massive closing of the accounts by the old Twitter to those who had an opposite opinion to the narrative about PLANDIMIAS,.... Then Twitter was good and fair, but now that Musk took it and gave FREEDOM OF SPEECH, you have panicked and you shout every day for people to close their X accounts because MASK wants to train his AI (Like Google and all the rest don't train their AIs)… But weren't you the one who urged us to join ChatGP????? ChatGP training doesn't bother you????