The Musk Doge worker steps again by way of racist social media contributions

Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, speaks to CNBC on May 16, 2023.

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An employee of the Department of Government Efficiency under the direction of Tech billionaire, Elon Musk, resigned on Thursday after the Wall Street Journal asked the White House for his connection to a social media account that was for racism and Eugenik used.

The employee of Doge, Marko Elez, was approved on Thursday by a federal judge together with another employee of Doge, who has access to the US treasury payment system, but limited his ability to share data from the system.

The journal said that it made connections between 25-year-old Elez and a social media account on Musk's platform X, which was deleted in December.

“The deleted @nulllllptr account was previously accessed by the user name @Marko_elez. A review of archived articles shows,” reported the journal. “The user behind @Nullllllptr also described himself as an employee at SpaceX and Starlink, where Elez worked according to Archives of Elez 'personal website.”

Musk plays an important role in the efforts of President Donald Trump to reduce the Federal Government's expenses and the number of employees of employees. Elez was designated as a special government employee.

“They could not pay me to get married outside of my ethnicity,” tweeted @nulllllptr in September, the journal reported.

“Normalize the Indian hatred,” wrote the report in the same month in relation to a contribution in which the distribution of people from India was found in Silicon Valley, “said the journal.

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“Just for recording, I was racist before it was cool,” said the account in July, according to the newspaper.

In June the report tweeted: “I wouldn't mind if Gaza and Israel were both wiped out of the ground.”

The spokesman for the White House, Karoline Leavitt, told the magazine that Elez had resigned after the journal had been inquired about the account.

An official of the White House confirmed the resignation from Elez to CNBC.

In an interview with the Bloomberg News -Service published on Thursday, Finance Minister Scott Bessent said that he personally checked one of the two financial employees of the Musk's Doge team.

“These are highly qualified specialists,” said Bessent to Bloomberg. “This is not a band that runs around.”

“This is methodological and will achieve great savings,” said the head of finance.