https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5132574-elon-musk-doge-poll-marko-elez/amp/
Tech billionaire Elon Musk took to his social media platform X to ask users if he should rehire one of his deputies who resigned Thursday after racist social media posts of his resurfaced.
“Bring back @DOGE staffer who made inappropriate statements via a now deleted pseudonym?” Musk wrote Friday morning on X , attached to a poll asking users to answer “Yes” or “No.”
As of 10:30 a.m. EST Friday, the post had nearly 2.9 million views and more than 232,000 votes. More than 80 percent of users who answered selected “yes.”
Marko Elez, 25, resigned Thursday after briefly serving on Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) task force. He previously worked for numerous companies run by Musk as well.