Department of Government Efficiency head says he wants to test whether federal employees are ‘capable of replying to an email’
Elon Musk said that blanket emails sent to federal employees asking for a response about their weekly accomplishments or risk termination was a test to see if they “had a pulse.”
Why are media outlets so complicit in all of this? Headline makes it sound like this was planned all along. Change “admits” to “claims” and you have a more accurate story.
(The first one I objected to and have been arguing about in the comments. It’s infuriating how the consent is being manufactured right before our eyes and people just flat-out refuse to see it.)
While I’m at it, I’d also like to mention this video I saw the other day. It’s mostly off-topic (it’s about NYC’s new congestion charge and comparing it to London’s experience implementing the concept), but it gives a really good example of how propagandized US news can be even on something that isn’t overtly partisan the way Musk/DOGE topics are.
Why are media outlets so complicit in all of this? Headline makes it sound like this was planned all along. Change “admits” to “claims” and you have a more accurate story.
There were a couple of AP articles I saw earlier that stood out as being even worse:
Nearly 40% of contracts canceled by DOGE are expected to produce no savings
Federal technology staffers resign rather than help Musk and DOGE
(The first one I objected to and have been arguing about in the comments. It’s infuriating how the consent is being manufactured right before our eyes and people just flat-out refuse to see it.)
While I’m at it, I’d also like to mention this video I saw the other day. It’s mostly off-topic (it’s about NYC’s new congestion charge and comparing it to London’s experience implementing the concept), but it gives a really good example of how propagandized US news can be even on something that isn’t overtly partisan the way Musk/DOGE topics are.