DOGE's HR Email is Getting the 'Bee Movie' Spam Treatment
Over the weekend, Elon Musk surveyed his followers on X — the platform he spent $44 billion to buy — asking whether federal employees should be required to send his team an email with a list of five things they accomplished this week. With the yes votes totaling over 70%, Musk followed through. Federal employees received an email from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) this weekend, requesting their weekly list of accomplishments by 11:59 p.m. ET on Monday.
- The online resistance tactics employed by federal employees in response to DOGE's HR email serve as a fascinating case study for the power dynamics at play between government agencies and the public sphere.
- As the use of digital activism becomes increasingly widespread, it raises fundamental questions about the limits of civic engagement and the relationship between government officials and their constituents.