Elon Musk

Trolls Deface DOGE’s Unsecured “Government” Site

404 Media reports: The doge.gov website that was spun up to track Elon Musk’s cuts to the federal government is insecure and pulls from a database that can be edited by anyone, according to two separate people who found the vulnerability and shared it with 404 Media. One coder added at least two database entries that are visible on the …

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Musk-Linked Group Offered $5 Million Bounty For Reporting Cases Of Election Fraud, Awarded Nothing

The Guardian reports: In May 2024, a flashy ad went viral on social media warning that “across the country, there are real cases of fraud and abuses of the [election] system that have eroded our trust”. The ad pledged that “whistleblowers” who shared evidence of election fraud “will be rewarded with payment from our $5m fund”. This reward was courtesy …

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Senator To Rubio: Explain This $400M Tesla Purchase

“Mr. Musk’s dual roles pose conflicts of interest so obvious that they hardly require explanation. The intent to purchase armored Cybertrucks suggests the conflicts of interest inherent in Mr. Musk’s installation of his cronies throughout the government are not being adequately managed and, in fact, are increasing by the minute. In the 15 months since it was released, the Cybertruck …

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DOGE Targets Freedom Of Information Act Requests

FOIA Files reports: The lack of transparency surrounding DOGE’s efforts is off the charts. The DOGE strike team itself operates in secrecy. In the case of the CFPB, after the team members appeared at the agency’s Washington headquarters, they often refused to talk to employees or disclose their names, and carried out work in a basement conference room where they …

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Musk Signs Deal To Build “Dubai Loop” Transit System

Reuters reports: Elon Musk’s The Boring Company and Dubai’s Road and Transport Authority (RTA) have signed an initial agreement to build the Dubai Loop, an underground high-speed transport network spanning 17km (10.6 miles), they said on Friday. The United Arab Emirates’ Artificial Intelligence Minister, Omar Al Olama, announced the project on a video interview with Elon Musk during the World …

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Musk: “We Need To Delete Entire Agencies” [VIDEO]

Fortune reports: Elon Musk’s plans for government efficiency just got a whole lot bigger: He says he’ll need to delete entire agencies in order to achieve his goal in the long term. Speaking at the 2025 World Governments Summit in Dubai, Musk was asked about how his cost-slashing actions in the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) will be maintained under …

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Education Dept Employees Get Termination Notices

CNN reports: The firings mark the first from the Trump administration as President Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s DOGE aim to dramatically shrink the federal workforce. Until now, federal employees across all government agencies had only been placed on paid administrative leave. A form letter sent to Department of Education employees, obtained by CNN, informing them of their termination stated: …

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Musk And Cronies Claim DOGE Reporting Is “Doxxing”

The New York Times reports: For years, journalists have written about the social media posts of government employees to help reveal the positions, motivations and actions of public officials. But when a journalist recently trained that same lens on Elon Musk’s new government efficiency program, the billionaire suggested that the reporting might be illegal, joining other powerful figures connected to …

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Fox Host To Elon Musk: “Open Up Your Own Books”

“The real issue here is that he’s talking a big game about transparency, but he’s not being transparent himself. This idea that Elon Musk shouldn’t have to do financial disclosures like everybody else who’s working in the government is ludicrous. “And President Trump said yesterday, oh well, he doesn’t need to do it. Karoline Leavitt has said he doesn’t need …

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State Dept Contracts For $400M In “Armored Teslas”

Drop Site reports: The State Department’s procurement forecast, revised as of late December 2024, lists Tesla as the recipient of the largest expected contract, with Marco Rubio’s department planning to buy $400,000,000 worth of “Armored Tesla.” The award is targeted for Q4, and is forecast to last for five years. The procurement forecast is listed as having been modified on December …

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AP: Tesla Has Sued Chinese Owners For Complaining

The Associated Press reports: Zhang Yazhou was sitting in the passenger seat of her Tesla Model 3 when she said she heard her father’s panicked voice: The brakes don’t work! Approaching a red light, her father swerved around two cars before plowing into an SUV and a sedan and crashing into a large concrete barrier. Stunned, Zhang gazed at the …

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WH Refuses To Release Musk’s Financial Disclosure

The New York Times reports: Elon Musk plans to file a financial disclosure report to the White House, but it will remain confidential, a White House official said Tuesday. There has never been a White House staffer with the vast potential for conflicts like Mr. Musk, the world’s richest person and the head of leading companies in electric vehicles, space …

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DOGE Cancels $900M In Education Research Grants

The New York Times reports: Elon Musk’s cost-cutting effort announced a variety of cuts at the Education Department totaling over $900 million, apparently aimed at hobbling the department’s research arm, the Institute of Education Sciences. The team Mr. Musk has assembled, which has operated in relative secrecy in shuttering other agencies such as U.S.A.I.D. and slashing government programs, said on …

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REPORT: Teen DOGE Worker “Big Balls” Ran Site To Create “Shitposting” URLs Referencing Child Porn, KKK

Musk Watch reports: Edward Coristine, a 19-year-old member of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), launched an image-sharing website in 2021 that featured custom “shitposting” web addresses that redirected to content hosted on his site. URLs that redirected to Coristine’s site referenced the sale of child sexual abuse material, racial slurs, and rape. Among the links were “child-porn.store” and …

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Wikipedia Increases Defenses After Attacks By Cultists

404 Media reports: The Wikimedia Foundation is building new tools that it hopes will help Wikipedia editors stay anonymous in part to avoid harassment and legal threats as Elon Musk and the Heritage Foundation ramp up their attacks on people who edit Wikipedia. Some of the tactics have been pioneered by Wikimedia in countries with authoritarian governments and where editing …

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19-Year-Old DOGE Flack “Big Balls” Given “Senior Advisor” Roles At State Dept And Homeland Security

The Washington Post reports: A 19-year-old acolyte of Elon Musk known online as “Big Balls” has taken on new roles as a senior adviser at the State Department and at the Department of Homeland Security, raising concerns among some diplomats and others about his potential access to sensitive information and the growing reach of his tech billionaire boss into America’s …

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Musk Spreads Insane Lie About Ex-USAID Director

Forbes reports: Billionaire government efficiency chief Elon Musk has repeatedly spread baseless or false claims about the gutted U.S. Agency for International Development on X, including an unsupported claim the agency was a form of “money laundering” and that it paid celebrities millions to visit Ukraine. Musk responded to a post on X claiming former USAID chief Samantha Power earned …

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USAID Can No Longer Track $8B In Unspent Funds

The Associated Press reports: The U.S. Agency for International Development has lost almost all ability to track $8.2 billion in unspent humanitarian aid after the Trump administration’s foreign funding freeze and idling of staff, a government watchdog warned Monday. The new administration’s rapid dismantling of USAID has left oversight of the humanitarian aid “largely nonoperational,” the inspector general’s office for …

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DOJ Appeals Ruling Blocking DOGE From Treasury

Politico reports: The Trump administration is making an urgent push to end a court order barring top officials’ access to the federal government’s massive payment system operated by the Treasury Department, saying the “remarkable intrusion” is unconstitutional and should be “dissolved immediately.” “Basic democratic accountability requires that every executive agency’s work be supervised by politically accountable leadership, who ultimately answer …

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REPORT: Cybertrucks “Deadlier” Than Infamous Pinto

Mother Jones reports: An analysis published Thursday by the auto news website FuelArc found that, in their one year of existence, the approximately 34,000 Cybertrucks on the roads had five fire fatalities, giving them a fatality rate of 14.5 per 100,000 units. That’s 17 times the fatality rate of the Ford Pintos, whose famously flawed gas tank design on the …

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