DOGE employee steps down after racist posts uncovered: report
A Department of Government Efficiency staffer resigned Thursday after racists posts across his now deleted X (formerly Twitter) account came to light, the Wall Street Journal exclusively reports.
Marko Elez, 25, was granted access to the US Department of Treasury's payment system by a federal judge Thursday morning, according to the report, but the judge also "limited" the Elon Musk ally's "ability to share the data."
He resigned from his role hours later.
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WSJ reports:
The account, @nullllptr—a misspelling of a keyword in the C++ programming language—was deleted in December, but hundreds of brash, sometimes-sophomoric posts have been archived.
The user appeared to have a special dislike for Indian software engineers. '99% of Indian H1Bs will be replaced by slightly smarter LLMs, they’re going back don’t worry guys,' the user posted in December.
'Just for the record, I was racist before it was cool,' @nullllptr posted in July.
"You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity," a September 2024 post on the account also read, according to WSJ. "Normalize Indian hate," it continued.
Furthermore, the account also "advocated repealing the Civil Rights Act and backed a 'eugenic immigration policy' in the weeks before President Trump was inaugurated."
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WSJ's full report is available here (subscription required).
