Musk’s Actions

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Last night before sleep, I started reading about a recent move by Elon Musk. It kept me awake for quite a while.

Below is where I first learned about — what some are calling — a coup by Musk. Below, Richardson references an article in Wired, which details that six young men, between the ages of 19 and 24, breached federal infrastructure computers to take control of financial systems. Wired reports that Musk, as part of his role leading DOGE, the Department of Governement Efficiency, says he is doing this to make USAID more efficient. DOGE is not an official government agency, and Musk is not an elected official. The six young men are purportedly working in some capacity at DOGE, their names are Akash Bobba, Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor, Gautier Cole Killian, Gavin Kliger, and Ethan Shaotran, and they have little to no experience in government.

“What we’re seeing is unprecedented in that you have these actors who are not really public officials gaining access to the most sensitive data in government,” says Don Moynihan, a professor of public policy at the University of…