As part of his acquisition of Twitter in 2022, Elon Musk The CEO of the Social Media -creeped giant to detail what he achieved during the working week -years before he employed the same tactics for federal employees, while he served in his capacity as the Ministry of Government Efficiency under the Trump government .
Musk rowed the federal workforce on Saturday when he placed X that employees should mention their performance for the last week or run the risk of losing their jobs.
But this is not the first time that Musk has used the tactic: he did the same amidst his purchase of Twitter in 2022, before he overhauled the social media, including the learning of top brass.
“What did you do this week,” MUSK had sent a SMS in April 2022 Former Twitter -CEO Parag Agrawal, months before he bought Twitter and finally renamed X.
Musk helped to revive the text exchange during the weekend on X, when he responded to an account that a “how it started, how is it” shared a screenshot of Musk’s text to Agrawal, accompanied by a screen recording of a Musk X Post on Saturday aimed at federal employees.
“In accordance with the instructions of President @realdonaldrump, all federal employees will soon receive an e -mail to understand what they did last week,” Musk wrote on X on Saturday. “If you do not respond, will be taken as a resignation.”
“To be clear, the bar is very low here,” Musk wrote. “An e -mail with a few list marks that are logical at all is acceptable! Must take less than 5 minutes to write.”
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Musk, who positioned himself as ‘virtually expression absolutist’ in the midst of the Twitter purchase, Bought the social media platform in 2022 After it came under fire from conservatives and proponents of freedom of expression for censing conservative views.
SpaceX founder Elon Musk bought Twitter in October 2022. (Joe Skipper / Carlos Barria / Reuters)
The Tech giant had “permanently” former president Donald Trump Of the platform in 2021, the pulling of Ire of Conservatives and Proponents of free speech. It also blocked the 2020 story of the New York Post about the notorious laptop of Hunter Biden -and created some conservative accounts of the site, such as Satire website Babylon Bee in 2022 after it was the official Rachel Levine Rachel Levine a fictional “man of had granted the year “award.
Musk’s text to the then CEO of the then Twitter who asked what he achieved for the week came when the two sparrings about Musk’s critical messages aimed at the Social media platformIncluding the public questions that year: “Is Twitter on?” The SMS reports were unveiled in judicial documents released in 2022.
Months later, in October 2022, Musk Twitter officially took over in a $ 44 billion deal, waves when he entered the head office that month with a bathroom in a video in a video he placed on X with the caption, “Twitter headquarters Enter – let it sink! “
Musk then dismissed the top managers of the social media company, including Agrawal, CFO Ned Segal and General Counselor Vijaya Gadde. Musk recently explained on X that Agrawal was fired due to reported productivity problems.
“Parag received nothing. Parag was fired,” he posted on Saturday on X.
Elon Musk and demonstrators against Doge and his activities that control various federal agencies. (Getty Images)
Everything in, about 70% to 80% of the approximately 8,000 employees of Twitter were fired or left the company after the purchase of Musk. Musk took an ax to the work of the company from home policy and noted that the company was and had to be cut by employees who did not contribute much to the activities.
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“We just had a situation on Twitter where it was absurdly,” said Musk on Fox News in 2023. “It turns out that you don’t need that many people to run Twitter.”
Protesters gather for the protest “No Kings on President’s Day” in Washington, DC, on February 17, 2025. (Deirdre Heavey/Fox News Digital)
“If you don’t try to run a kind of glorified activist organization and you don’t care much about censorship, then you can really let go of many people,” he said at the time.
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The comments of Musk reflect those he made in the second Trump administration as chairman of Doge, who is in the middle of checking various federal agencies in the search for excessive expenses, corruption and mismanagement.
Doge’s work comes as president Donald Trump ordered the federal workforce to return to the office remotely from the remote work of the Coronavirus Pandemie, and has sworn to clean the house of bad actors within the government and Bijl that are superfluous.
President Donald Trump and Doge Hoofd Elon Musk sit down for an exclusive interview with “Hannity”. (Fox News)
Musk said on Saturday that federal employees would receive an e -mail in which they are instructed to mention their performance the week before, whereby the Dog leader later that day adds that the assignment should last less than five minutes to reach.
Employees have Monday to 11:59 pm to send the list or to lose their employment, according to E -mails with regard to Musk’s guideline sent by the Office or Personnel Management.
Musk’s message followed Trump Note that he was satisfied with the work of Musk and Doge, research into various federal agencies for government spending, fraud and mismanagement, but that he would like to see Musk “become more aggressive”.
Musk responded to X: “Will Do, Mr. President!”
Elon Musk says that federal employees must fill in productivity reports or resign
Protesting protesters on Elon Musk on February 22, 2025 in Seattle, Washington. (David Ryder/Getty images)
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Some democratic legislators, trade unions and activists have called for federal employees to take the order, while a handful of government departments and agencies, such as the FBI and the Ministry of Defense, told employees that they should respond to the E -mail, because the respective Civil servants will do that, treat auditing their own employees.
“This is a good opportunity for massive bourgeois disobedience. Musk has no authority to do this,” for example, Illinois Democratic Rep. Sean Casten, for example posted on X on Saturday evening. “Encourage all federal employees to report to work, to prepare GFY letters and to continue to demonstrate public service and patriotism that he is missing.” The acronym GFY is internet jargon, which usually means “go f — yourself.”
“It requires a remarkable combination of arrogance and stupidity to think that this is the best use of time for our intelligence officers, VA employees, air traffic controllers and all others on which we depend on their job,” he continued .
