FTC Removes Posts Critical of Amazon, Microsoft, and AI Companies

The Trump administration’s Federal Trade Commission has removed four years’ worth of business guidance blogs as of Tuesday morning, including ...
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‘It’s a Heist’: Real Federal Auditors Are Horrified by DOGE

Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has spent the first six weeks of the new Trump administration turning ...
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Donald Trump Held Another Million-Dollar ‘Candlelight’ Dinner—With Elon Musk in Tow

An invitation to a “candlelight” dinner held this past Saturday at President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club asked prospective guests to ...
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These Are the 10 DOGE Operatives Inside the Social Security Administration

The SSA did not respond to a request from WIRED about what the DOGE operatives are working on inside the ...
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USDS Engineering Director Resigns: ‘This Is Not the Mission I Came to Serve’

The director of data science and engineering for the United States Digital Service—which Elon Musk rebranded as the US DOGE ...
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Not Even DOGE Employees Know Who’s Legally Running DOGE

Before Trump was inaugurated, the USDS administrator was Mina Hsiang. After she left, Ted Carstensen was the highest-ranking legacy USDS ...
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Elon Musk’s DOGE Is Being Sued Under the Privacy Act: What to Know

After months of congressional wrangling that saw the elimination of Ervin’s proposed independent privacy oversight board, President Gerald Ford signed ...
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National Science Foundation Fires 168 Workers as Federal Purge Continues

The National Science Foundation fired nearly 170 workers in a Zoom call on Tuesday morning as part of the Trump ...
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No, 150-Year-Olds Aren’t Collecting Social Security Benefits

Elon Musk has repeatedly claimed that his so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) project had uncovered massive government fraud when ...
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Elon Musk’s Man in the Treasury Is Still Holding Down His Day Job as Software CEO

This morning, workers at the US Treasury Department’s Bureau of the Fiscal Service (BFS) received an email announcing that Tom ...
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