Elon Musk Demands Firing of ‘Disgusting and Cruel’ WSJ Reporter Who Uncovered DOGE Employee’s Racist Tweets
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Elon Musk suggested that The Wall Street Journal reporter responsible for uncovering a DOGE employee's racist tweets should be fired on Friday.

Summary

Elon Musk called for the firing of Wall Street Journal reporter Katherine Long after she exposed racist tweets from Marko Elez, a Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) employee who later resigned.

Long’s report revealed Elez had posted remarks promoting racism and eugenics.

“Just for the record, I was racist before it was cool,” Elez posted in July, according to the Journal’s review of archived posts.

Musk, who claims to support free speech, labeled Long “disgusting and cruel” and demanded that she should be fired.

Critics noted the hypocrisy of Musk advocating for a journalist’s removal over accurate reporting on a public official’s misconduct.

    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      112·
      1 year ago

      he’s part of the government, but congress never vetted

      So just like the rest of the Trump kakistocracy, then.

      With the way the Dems, King, and even Bernie are rolling over and letting them do almost everything they want, they’re not gonna start bothering with vetting now.

    • hddsx@lemmy.ca
      3·
      1 year ago

      Special government employee. Why he’s allowed to do that without senate approval and has access to so many departments is beyond me

    • kent_eh@lemmy.caEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      he doesn’t have security clearance…

      Yet, somehow, he seems to have unfettered access to the entirety of the government’s record keeping system.

        • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
          01·
          1 year ago

          If it isn’t news to you, why are you saying he hasn’t been vetted or doesn’t have security clearance as if that’s relevant?

            • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
              01·
              1 year ago

              Which other people? What power do you think they have?

              And who do you expect to restrain them?

              And yes, America is over. It is a fascist dictatorship now. The sooner you accept that, the sooner you will stop expecting this to be fixed by any sort of government or legal opposition which will never come and hopefully actually start working on trying to do something about it yourself. Like taking to the streets when you can.

                • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
                  01·
                  1 year ago

                  if it was a fascist dictatorship, we couldn’t take to the streets.

                  when they start shooting protestors, then it will be a fascist dictatorship.

                  Got it, Nazi Germany did not start out as a fascist dictatorship when Hitler was named chancellor.

                  I think you’ve got a lot of historians to write to and inform them about this.

                  it can feel like we’re defeated, but we’re not… yet….

                  I said nothing about defeat. I said the government opposition is not going to help you. They are puppets now.