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Where did DOGE's recruits come from? Here's what we've discovered. In late 2024, a group of young software engineers fanned out across online chat groups and Discord servers. At least three were associated with Palantir or its cofounder—and Musk ally—Peter Thiel.

wrd.cmThe Recruitment Effort That Helped Build Elon Musk’s DOGE ArmyAt least three individuals associated with Palantir or its cofounder Peter Thiel were involved in an online recruiting effort for DOGE late last year, WIRED has learned.

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Like around when election computers started misbehaving in some states? is that why the tyrant publicly thanked #PresidentMusk for "knowing the voting computers"? there needs to be LIFETIME monitoring on all of them for compromise by foreign governments Musk could not even get clearance for SpaceX

Musk is probably connecting all those data stores to Palantir’s Gotham service. So now they have all this data and a powerful service to aggregate it and allow users to query it. So now I want to know who is hosting Gotham Musks and Thiels oligarch surveillance state is getting way to close.

This assault has more heads than Medusa. The big dealer made himself some deals with dealers making deals. What a mess and the gop still trying to pretend they all knew and all is copacetic. Saving face? Too many moving parts in the gig all redlining at once to be legit. Just stop it now.

Yall focus up! We have to protect & rebuild our institutions! This is our country! Overload the algo! Not our President's Day Feb 17th, 2025 Start a Protest, Create a Meme, Share a Meme, Start a protest! We must act now, demand Oligarchy be removed from our government #fiftyfiftyone #3E #r/50501

At this point it’s obvious that this is a hostile takeover by the capitalist elite. They will burrow into the payment gateway and essentially hold the countries budget hostage and will only pay those that agree with them - thus complete their hostile take over

Has anyone of the agencies already hit been allowed back on their devices or system at all since? Not a single one of them? Any IT person that gave those rights or saw what devices they were using or set up their accounts know anything about what they specifically were, what was used, etc.?

Someone had to set up their initial accounts. Someone had to set everything up and has authority to oversee their devices or system or accounts if stored govt secured. 6 workers cannot be copying all the data and ALSO full time overseeing all aspects of cyber security risks to store and protect it

Is there someone or some agency that specifically would have had to give user accounts to these guys or approved devices as government secured devices? Who would that be?

They have to be storing stuff on a server given the size of data and speed at which they're moving. Who would have any power to oversea that? Can they just set up a private server or devices and literally no one has any privileges or authority to oversea it in any way, it exclusively is by them?

In public health, places where there's highly secured data and lots of it from different agencies means for public health scientists having to go to centers that have no internet, not be able to use any devices to back up stuff or take out data, and other heavy controls. None of that required here?

TXCRDC is one example. If they're just auditing and all this is done securely, they must have government devices and there must be rules someone outside of them overseas to securely protect and store data for all these agencies ..

So, were they perchance also recruited for the code Musk blurted out about? to enter into the central tabulating step of vote counting along with swing states bought into Starlink to "speed up process"? This elephant in room, despite red-flags by Trump, Musk & 4yrs mtgs w/Putin, is being ignored.

In online chat groups linked to Palantir alumni and SpaceX interns, as well as in a Discord associated with a military artificial intelligence program, the engineers said they were looking for people willing to spend six months in DC, working to cut federal spending by a third. wrd.cm/3EwbLLx

wrd.cmThe Recruitment Effort That Helped Build Elon Musk’s DOGE ArmyAt least three individuals associated with Palantir or its cofounder Peter Thiel were involved in an online recruiting effort for DOGE late last year, WIRED has learned.

Since its establishment by executive order on the first day of Donald Trump’s presidency, DOGE has taken over key agencies at the center of the federal government. But its access to sensitive data and systems has placed DOGE at the center of a growing number of legal battles. wrd.cm/3EwbLLx

wrd.cmThe Recruitment Effort That Helped Build Elon Musk’s DOGE ArmyAt least three individuals associated with Palantir or its cofounder Peter Thiel were involved in an online recruiting effort for DOGE late last year, WIRED has learned.

Early Saturday morning, a federal judge temporarily barred members of the task force from access to records and the Treasury payment system through which the vast majority of federal spending flows, and ordered records in their possession destroyed immediately. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/n...

nytimes.comJudge Halts DOGE Access to Treasury Payment SystemsThe order came in response to a lawsuit filed by 19 attorneys general accusing the president of failing to faithfully execute the nation’s laws when he let DOGE comb through federal computer systems.
Denise Wheeler@denisedwheeler.bsky.social

I think we might know where all the missing Dem ballots went This is Ethan Shaotran. He's one of Musk's DOGE takeover hackers 2 yrs ago he won the Berkeley AI Hackathon But in 2000 won the HackGT7 with a ballot altering program called BallotProof Here's the deep dive that he couldn't scrub....

There’s apparently a family living in one of the buildings where Musk has his workers. It’s a worker and his wife and child living there. Saw a video of a Federal worker explaining it on Reddit. Might want to check that out.

Based on your excellent reporting, and that MAGAS seem to be attacking Wired now (must be doing something right) ;) - was about to subscribe to Wired print version. But, some complaints of too many ads. I know that it must be supported via ad-revenue, but what is the approximate % of ads to content?