Elon Musk, Tesla owner and billionaire, announced on Friday that he is reinstating Marko Elez, a former department of government efficiency (DOGE) employee who resigned a day earlier following a report linking him to a deleted social media account that had espoused racist views.
Elez, 25, left on Thursday after The Wall Street Journal discovered him as the user behind an account that had previously posted remarks like” I was racist before it was cool” and” You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity.”
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The bill also included a September article stating,” Normalize Indian hate”.
Elez’s return was praised by US vice president JD Vance, who argued that” ridiculous social media activity shouldn’t destroy a girl’s life.”
Musk, in reply, conducted a poll on his social media platform X, asking whether Elez may be reinstated, with 78 % election in favour.
Following the surveys, Musk wrote on X,” He may be brought up. To fail is human, to accept heavenly”. A few hours afterwards, US President Donald Trump backed his vice president’s approach, stating” I’m with the evil leader” during a news conference on Friday, according to AP.
Vance justified his place, saying,” I clearly disagree with some of Elez’s content, but I don’t believe stupid social media activity may destroy a kid’s life. If he’s a terrible dude or a bad member of the team, flame him for that”.
Political Congressman Ro Khanna criticised Elez’s restoration, questioning whether he would issue an apology before returning to the place.
Why not demand that a candidate apologize for saying,” Normalize Indian love” if you are going to rejoin people to represent you and the United States? On X, Khanna wrote.
Vance defended his determination, responding,” It’s not racist trolls on the internet who threaten my children, but a lifestyle that denies joy to people who make errors”. He argued that younger people should be able to develop and take their own lessons.
Elez and another DOGE worker recently hacked into a national payment system, which a court ruling, per AFP, restricted their access, in addition to the social media scandal.
