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Elon Musk Says Naming Specific Government Workers Is Illegal, After Doing Exactly That Himself

Maggie Harrison Dupré

created: Feb. 4, 2025, 8:18 p.m. | updated: March 19, 2025, 5:36 p.m.

<p>Ringing Hollow Elon Musk is really, really mad that journalists at Wired revealed the names of a cohort of extremely young engineers he's gathered at the definitely-not-a-real-government-agency Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to fire federal employees, assist in dismantling congressionally-created agencies like USAID, and clomp through the federal government's wide-ranging and sensitive troves of data. All illegally. This DOGE-accessed data contains massive amounts of information about American agencies and even the personal data of American citizens, Social Security numbers included, and new reporting from Wired has revealed that one 25-year-old DOGE lackey indeed has administrative access to the code underpinning […]</p>

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