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Elon Musk embraces X platform as key tool in DOGE transparency amid onslaught of attacks from Dems
Fox News
President Donald Trump’s first term revolutionized the online relationship between the president and the public. Elon Musk is ushering a chronically online generation into Trump’s second term.
Musk’s X account reads more like a political debate. Buried in the steady stream of memes and AI edits, "special government employee" Musk uses X as a way to meet Americans where they are – confirming and denying information about his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) in real time. Deirdre Heavey is a politics writer for Fox News Digital.
It is easy to get lost in Musk's 69,000 posts, but the richest man in the world does not miss a beat. This week, as an unrelenting news cycle focused on DOGE’s United States Agency for International Development (USAID) investigation, Musk used X to confirm reporting as misinformation circulated.