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Engadget Podcast: What's up, DOGE? Diving into Elon Musk's hack on America

We joked about "President Musk" shortly after Donald Trump took office, but it turns out that wasn't far from the truth.

They've illegally accessed the Treasury Department's federal payment system, pushed for USAID to be dismantled, and have also infiltrated the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. In this episode, we chat with 404 Media's Jason Koebler about what Musk and his young tech cronies are up to, and how it ties into Silicon Valley's approach to the new Trump administration. A coalition of civil society has published an open letter to the Oversight Board saying the group should resign en masse to protest Meta's content moderation and fact-checking policies.

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