Musk Gives His “DOGE Dept” Official Govt Checkmark

Business Insider reports:

Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency is already verified on X as an official government entity, and could be in violation of the platform’s rules on verification. After less than two days, the DOGE account on X has the platform’s gray verified checkmark, which is used to identify government or multilateral organization accounts.

According to X’s rules on checkmarks, organizations eligible for the gray checkmark are generally reserved for executive office accounts, government agency accounts, and embassy and state-level accounts, as well as accounts held by government officials and heads of state. DOGE is not an official government department.

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This account has been given a grey checkmark, verifying it as an official government account.

It also only accepts resumes be DM’s, which are solely open to verified X users who pay Elon Musk.

This level of corruption is staggering. pic.twitter.com/4Fs5p69UTK

— MeidasTouch (@MeidasTouch) November 14, 2024

Being that this is not an official government agency, this would also seem to be a fraudulent impersonation violating FTC rules: pic.twitter.com/k7kE6nBBNl

— MeidasTouch (@MeidasTouch) November 14, 2024

It cannot be official until Trump takes office. Moreover, it can’t ever be an official Department until Congress authorizes it at such. @elonmusk – can you explain why it received a gray checkmark?

— Tirah Att (@TirahAtt) November 14, 2024