{"id":148639,"date":"2025-02-06T21:48:46","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T21:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/06\/doge-staffer-steps-down-after-racist-posts-emerge-techcrunch\/"},"modified":"2025-02-06T21:48:46","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T21:48:46","slug":"doge-staffer-steps-down-after-racist-posts-emerge-techcrunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/06\/doge-staffer-steps-down-after-racist-posts-emerge-techcrunch\/","title":{"rendered":"DOGE staffer steps down after racist posts emerge | TechCrunch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A 25-year-old engineer working for the Department of Government Efficiency (or DOGE) has stepped down over racist posts from an X account tied to him, The Wall Street Journal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/tech\/doge-staffer-resigns-over-racist-posts-d9f11a93\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">reports.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Marko Elez resigned after the WSJ asked the White House about his connection to an <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/marko_elez\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">account<\/a> and its since-deleted posts. In September 2024, the account posted \u201cYou could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity\u201d and \u201cNormalize Indian hate.\u201d It also advocated a \u201ceugenic immigration policy\u201d in the weeks leading up to President Trump\u2019s inauguration on January 20, 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Elez had access to confidential federal payment records at the Treasury Department, WIRED <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/elon-musk-associate-bfs-federal-payment-system\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">reported<\/a> on Tuesday. He previously worked at X and SpaceX \u2014 both companies owned by Elon Musk, DOGE\u2019s creator.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">DOGE has sent young engineers like Elez across the federal government to implement mass restructuring plans, <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/02\/05\/the-biggest-breach-of-u-s-government-data-is-under-way\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">raising security concerns<\/a> about their access to sensitive data.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/02\/06\/doge-staffer-steps-down-after-racist-posts-emerge\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 25-year-old engineer working for the Department of Government Efficiency (or DOGE) has stepped down over racist posts from an X account tied to him, The Wall Street Journal reports. Marko Elez resigned after the WSJ asked the White House about his connection to an account and its since-deleted posts. In September 2024, the account [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":148640,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-148639","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tech"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}