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Internet Spams Trump's 'DEI Truth' Tip Line With Porn, 'Simpsons' Jokes
Federal employees were told to report “disguised” Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility offices to the email. The public is… pitching in.
A tip line meant to encourage federal employees to rat out their colleagues for working on diversity issues is instead apparently being spammed with movie quotes and colored pencil drawings. Charles Ezell, the acting director of the Office of Personnel Management — basically the federal government’s HR department – sent a memo to agency heads Tuesday, encouraging them to send a letter to employees asking them to report “efforts by some in government to disguise these programs by using coded or imprecise language.” The letter threatens “adverse consequences” if federal workers choose not to report their coworkers. But a similar spam campaign against an Immigration and Customs Enforcement tip line for “immigration crime” during Trump’s first term “fully upended the system, leaving operators unable to answer more than 98 percent of incoming calls during the protest as the media relations team attempted to contain the narrative,” as The Verge reported in 2018.
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