Elon Musk harasses individual federal employees

Elon Musk, among many other things, serves as co-leader of the now-defunct Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) advisory group. Now, before it gets into full swing, he has identified individual government officials who he claims represent government bloat and has begun posting about them to X’s hundreds of millions of followers.

At the beginning of this week, we started reported by wall street journalX user “datahazard” shared a screenshot on I don’t think so.” That role. musk Repostedadded the comment, “So many fake jobs,” to a post that has been viewed more than 33 million times.

as WSJ Musk’s supporters reacted exactly as expected, with a flood of memes and harassment targeting Thomas, and Thomas’ LinkedIn and Facebook pages are now private, according to the note. . Everett Kelly, president of the American Federation of Public Employees, said: WSJ It claimed the post was “designed to instill fear and terror among federal employees.”

Bombarding targets with harassment is a tactic Musk has used in the past, including calling cave explorer Vernon Unsworth a “pedo bastard” and criticizing a former Twitter executive following the company’s takeover bid. , including that trust and safety director Yoel Roth suggested he was sympathetic. To pedophiles. Of course, all this is under the guise of “free speech.”

Of course, the ensuing harassment is exactly the point. Musk has systematically turned X into a megaphone for his opinions and wielded it for purposes he finds interesting and useful. Musk and DOGE co-chair Vivek Ramaswamy have promised to do much of their work in public (sometimes even at the This means that there is a high possibility that many civil servants will also be targeted.