Musk to rehire DOGE staffer fired over social media posts after White House support
Politics,Social Media,Cancel Culture,Elon Musk,DOGE,JD Vance,Investigative Journalism,Race And Racism
Elon Musk announced that a staffer with the Department of Government Efficiency who had been fired over past social media posts would be reinstated following support from President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance.
Marko Elez, a 25-year-old engineer, was doxxed as a member of DOGE in a Wired article earlier this week. A subsequent investigation by a reporter from the Wall Street Journal linked Elez to a burner account on X with a history of inflammatory posts, which had been deleted before he joined DOGE He resigned shortly thereafter.
His resignation, apparently confirmed to have been pressured after Musk asked the public if he should be reinstated, was quickly decried by some on the Right as a success of cancel culture...
