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DOGE’s HR email is getting the ‘Bee Movie’ spam treatment


Over the weekend, Elon Musk surveyed his followers on X — the platform he spent $44 billion to buy — asking whether federal employees should be required

Over the weekend, Elon Musk surveyed his followers on X — the platform he spent $44 billion to buy — asking whether federal employees should be required to send his team an email with a list of five things they accomplished this week. As federal employees are threatened with losing their jobs, people on social media platforms like Reddit, TikTok, Threads, and Bluesky are calling on each other to spam the now-public email address with nonsense. Trump’s detractors have employed these tactics since the first week of his term, when his administration set up dedicated email accounts requesting that employees report noncompliance with the president’s executive orders to dismantle diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs.

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