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Elon Musk Is Running the Twitter Playbook on the Federal Government
Elon Musk is only one week into his role in President Donald Trump’s new administration, but the US federal government is already rolling out the Twitter playbook to manage its spending and personnel.
Trump’s Federal Buyout Memo Has Echoes of Musk’s 2022 Twitter Purge
A new memo offering "deferred resignation" to all federal employees seems to be taking its strategy from Musk's chaotic Twitter takeover.
Trump administration offers federal workers payouts for resignations in move mirroring Elon Musk's memo at Twitter
The Trump administration offered an ultimatum to some federal employees asking them to choose if they want to resign in a pitch that echoes Elon Musk's moves at Twitter.
Trump's government-worker buyouts are feeling a lot like Musk's Twitter in 2022
The new administration is emailing government employees draft resignation letters. Musk sent a similar email to Twitter staff in 2022.
Trump Offers Federal Workers a Buyout to Quit. Why It Echoes Musk’s Twitter Playbook.
President Donald Trump has told federal workers to either return to the office or quit. It looks like Elon Musk’s strategy when he bought Twitter. The U.S. Office of Personnel Management made all federal employees a deferred resignation offer Tuesday as it ramps up its return-to-office push.
Trump cribs Musk’s “fork in the road” Twitter memo to slash gov’t workforce
Echoing Elon Musk's approach to thinning out Twitter's staff in 2022, Donald Trump's plan to significantly slash the government workforce now, for a limited time only, includes offering resignation buyouts.
Donald Trump's federal buyout email bears striking similarities to Musk X purge email
President Donald Trump's offer to buyout federal employees appears to be taking the lead of Elon Musk's playbook for overhauling in X in 2023.
Elon Musk Looks to Stick a Fork in Federal Government Workers
Around the same time as Musk’s post, hundreds of thousands of federal workers received an email also titled “Fork in the Road ...
Elon Musk's Platform Labels His Argument 'Objectively False'
A community post on Elon Musk's tweet said: "This is objectively false. Subways have more than 10x the capacity of a road for ...
Former Friend of Elon Musk Says Billionaire 'Believes He Is Above Everyone Else'
In January 2025, a post about tech billionaire Elon Musk, purportedly written by someone who knew him for years, was shared ...
Andreessen: Substack And Elon Musk's Twitter Takeover Broke The Social Media Censorship Dynamic
Tech founder Marc Andreessen explained how the U.S. government's social media censorship scheme came to an end during an ...
The ADL Scolds Elon Musk for Nazi Puns: “The Holocaust Is Not a Joke”
After defending Musk's viral salute, The Anti-Defamation League is criticizing the tech billionaire for making a series of ...
Wall Street hopes to get rid of a bad Elon Musk bet
Wall Street banks are hoping this is the week when they can start to recover more from the bad bets they made on Elon Musk’s ...
Musk team’s push to gut federal workforce bypassed key Trump officials
Billionaire Elon Musk has worked behind the scenes on an initiative aimed at depleting the civil service, prompting questions ...
Elon Musk Tells Friends He’s Sleeping at the DOGE Offices in DC
In a move straight out of the Twitter and Tesla playbook, Elon Musk is apparently camping out just steps away from the White ...