As part of the 2022 acquisition of Twitter, Elon Musk called on the CEO of the social media giant to detail what he accomplished in the week of work. Government efficiency under the Trump administration.
Musk shook the federal workforce on Saturday, posting to X, where employees listed their performance from the previous week and posted that they were at risk of losing their jobs.
However, this is not the first time Musk has used tactics. He did the same thing in his 2022 Twitter purchase.
“What did we do this week?” Musk texted former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal a few months before purchasing Twitter in April 2022, and eventually changed the X.
Mask helped revive text exchanges with X over the weekend. When he responded to an account that shared “how it started and how it went,” he showed Agrawal a screenshot of the mask's text, accompanied by a screenshot of Musk X. Post on Saturdays directed at federal employees.
“Consistent with @Realdonaldtrump's instructions, all federal employees will receive an email promptly requesting a request to understand what they did last week,” Musk said on Saturday. I wrote it in. “A failure to respond will be considered a resignation.”
“To be clear, the bar is very low here,” Musk wrote. “Some bullet points emails that make sense are acceptable! They should take less than five minutes to write.”
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Musk, who positioned himself as a “free speech absolutist” in his Twitter purchase, began social in 2022 after firing to censor conservative perspectives from conservatives and free speech advocates. I bought a media platform.
SpaceX founder Elon Musk purchased Twitter in October 2022. (Joe Skipper/Carlos Barrier/Reuters)
The technology giant banned former President Donald Trump from his platform in 2021 “forever” and drew anger from conservatives and free speech advocates. Also, after blocking the New York Post's 2020 storyline about Hunter Biden's infamous laptop and awarding the official Rachel Levine A fictional “Man of the Year” of the transgender Biden administration, Babylon on satire website in 2022 Conservative accounts have been suspended from sites such as Bee. .
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Mask's text to the then-twitter CEO asked what he accomplished this week. The two said that the “Will Twitter die?” text message was revealed in court documents released in 2022.
A few months later, in October 2022, Musk officially acquired Twitter on a $44 billion deal, and when he entered the headquarters that month, carrying the bathroom sink to a video he posted in caption. It caused waves. ! ”
Musk has fired top executives of social media companies, including Agrawal, CFO Ned Segal and general counsel Vijaya Gadde. Musk recently explained in X that Agrawal was fired after reporting productivity issues.
“Parag did nothing. Parag was fired,” he posted on X on Saturday.
Elon Musk and the protesters are auditing Doge and various federal agencies for its work. (Getty Images)
Approximately 70% to 80% of Twitter's employees have fired or left the company after purchasing Musk. Musk has led hatch from home policy to company work, saying the company is over-staffed and needs to be sorted out from staff who are not contributing much to its business.
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“We had a situation on Twitter where it was exaggerated as ridiculous,” Musk told Fox News in 2023.
Protesters will gather to protest the “King of President's Day” in Washington, D.C. on February 17, 2025. (Deirdre Heavey/Fox News Digital)
“It turns out you can really let go of a lot of people if you're not trying to run some kind of glorious activist organization and don't care much about censorship,” he said.
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Musk's comments reflect what he did in the Second Trump administration as Doge's chairman, who is in the midst of auditing various federal agencies for excessive spending, corruption and mismanagement.
Doge's work has President Donald Trump ordered federal workers to return to office after five years of remote work caused by the coronavirus pandemic, cleaning up bad actors' homes within government and x overexpenditure I vowed to do so.
President Donald Trump and Doge Head Elon Musk are sitting for a “Hornity” exclusive interview. (Fox News)
Musk said on Saturday he would receive an email instructing federal employees to list their achievements from the previous week, adding later that day that the challenges should take up to five minutes to achieve.
Employees will be required to send lists or lose employment until 11:59pm on Monday, according to an email about Musk's order sent by the Human Resources Administration.
The mask message continued Trump He is happy with Musk and Kuji's job investigating various federal agencies due to government overexpenditure, fraud and mismanagement, but wants to see him become “more aggressive.” He says that.
Musk replied with X: “Will Da, President!”
Elon Musk says federal employees must fill out or resign in productivity reports
The protesters will protest against Elon Musk in Seattle, Washington, February 22, 2025. (David Rider/Getty Images)
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Some democratic lawmakers, unions, and activists have called on federal employees to defy the order, but a small number of government departments and agencies, such as the FBI and the Department of Defense, should their respective officials do so. told staff not to respond to emails. Handle audits of your own staff.
“This is a great opportunity for massive civil disobedience. Masks have no authority to do this,” Illinois Democrat Sen. Sean Kasten posted on X on Saturday evening. “We encourage all federal employees to report to work, prepare GFY letters and continue to demonstrate the public service and patriotism he lacks.” The acronym GFY is in Internet slang. Yes, usually means “f —self.”
“I think this is the best use of time for our intelligence agents, VA workers, air traffic controllers and everyone else we rely on doing their job well. “We need an incredible combination of arrogance and stupidity,” he continued.
