Summary
Elon Musk called for the firing of Wall Street Journal reporter Katherine Long after she exposed racist tweets from Marko Elez, a Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) employee who later resigned.
Long’s report revealed Elez had posted remarks promoting racism and eugenics.
“Just for the record, I was racist before it was cool,” Elez posted in July, according to the Journal’s review of archived posts.
Musk, who claims to support free speech, labeled Long “disgusting and cruel” and demanded that she should be fired.
Critics noted the hypocrisy of Musk advocating for a journalist’s removal over accurate reporting on a public official’s misconduct.
He needs the full mussolini treatment
The full Luigi treatment
Too quick. Gaddafi treatment please
No can do, stinky Musky boy. First amendment explicitly protects criticism of government agencies and employees. Which is exactly what you’re claiming DOGE is.
The actual intention “free speech”, not what these idiots think it means.
Sounds like Katherine Long should sue the DOGE for infringing on her first amendment rights.
When it suits them, Musk is not a government employee. Also when it suits them, musk is a ‘special government employee’
She can try, but I expect the Trump admin is expecting to lean really hard on that thing where you need the permission of the federal government to sue the federal government.
how are some people still hypnotized to believe this man is a genius? GOD i will forever resent the media for glazing this man for 15 yrs and convincing the public that he’s anything more than a trust fund baby who could by companies and play pretend.
“It’s easier to fool a man than to convince him he’d been fooled.” -Mark Twain
Nvr heard this before. It’s a good one
Turns out, racists don’t like being outed.
Elon should know.
God damn, every time I think this douche can’t get any worse… There’s no bottom (well, to be fair Trump is his bottom}
Well of course, uncovering the crime is worse than committing it in this administration
Anybody can “demand” something. I am demanding the firing of the disgusting and cruel dumbass who runs the Department of Government Enshitification.
Is this the same guy who’s been rehired already?
3yrs ago, I was 39, if you found a racist tweet from 3 yrs ago, I should be responsible, who cares if 3 yrs ago the kid was in diapers and shouldn’t have had access to the internet, that is likely a good enough reason they should never have been allowed near government systems. Wtf did Elon do, walk into a highschool graduation like “you boys wanna see the inside of the government?”
A short while ago (like less than a month) he asked for people who are willing to work for no pay and are super diligent. What he was looking for were people who were rich enough to not need to be paid (their families anyway) and at the same time were his complete and absolute simps and will do ANYTHING for him and to prove their worth to the guy.
All of his young cronies need to be arrested and given at least a mandatory minimum of 20 years and a lifetime prohibition on using computers.
For no pay??? Lmaooo, bunch of fuckin’ Pick Me’s
Hah. You think it’s no pay. They went after OPM and the Treasury first for a reason.
Ah, yes. The champion of freedom of speech strikes again.
Is there a Lemmy fednews? I’ve been lurking on reddit solely for this news, but noticed a distinct change in tone in the past few days, and I think they may be drowning in muskrats before too long.
The free speech absolutist at work
For who people would like to see as an all powerful, intelligent and genius billionaire … he sure has a thin skin
For anyone that didn’t notice … this is the power of journalists and why we should defend them, help them and support them.
MAGA has a fucking hardon for cruelty unless it’s directed at white men.
