Post AvBoxNFKbH8xVjOUdc by Nonilex@masto.ai
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(DIR) Post #AvBoxNFKbH8xVjOUdc by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-06-16T13:45:18Z
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#Musk Spread #Lies to Justify #DOGE Takeover of #SocialSecurity#ElonMusk stood before a giant American flag at a Wisconsin rally in March & rolled out an eye-popping allegation of rampant fraud at the #SocialSecurityAdministration. Scammers, he said, were making 40% of all calls to the agency’s customer service line.#SSA employees knew the claim had no basis in fact. After journalists followed up, staff began drafting a response correcting the record.#Trump #law https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/us/politics/doge-social-security.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
(DIR) Post #AvBpFtpADNvZlIzJs8 by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-06-16T13:48:20Z
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That’s when #LelandDudek — plucked from a midlevel job only 6 weeks earlier to run #SocialSecurity because of his willingness to cooperate w/ Musk’s #DOGE — got an angry call from the White House, according to several people familiar w/the exchange.“The number is 40%,” insisted Katie Miller, a top admin aide [#StephenMiller’s wife] who was working closely w/ #Musk, acc/to one of the people familiar w/the April 1 call. #Trump believed Musk, she said. “Do not contradict the president.”#law
(DIR) Post #AvBpVuA2jM3fRKO08m by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-06-16T13:51:31Z
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Throughout the early months of this #Trump presidency, #Musk & his allies systematically built a false narrative of widespread fraud at the #SocialSecurity Admin based on misinterpreted data, using their claims to justify an aggressive effort to gain access to #PersonalInformation on millions of Americans, a NYT investigation has found.#FactCheck #TrumpLies #law #DOGE #privacy #InfoSec
(DIR) Post #AvBpaLtxX9BedMz3OC by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-06-16T13:52:20Z
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Their work has led to the departures of thousands of employees, thinning an already overstretched work force & setting off a wave of public anxiety over the state of an agency administering politically sacrosanct #retirement #benefits that #Trump vowed to protect.#FactCheck #TrumpLies #law #Musk #DOGE #privacy #InfoSec
(DIR) Post #AvBpmRMD4jpN1sxguW by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-06-16T13:54:31Z
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#Musk has left Washington amid a blowup with #Trump, & some of his top aides at #DOGE have also departed, leaving federal workers & the public to assess what Musk’s tornadolike path through Washington yielded. At #SocialSecurity, Musk’s efforts amount to a case study in what happened when his team of government novices ran a critical government agency through #misinformation & #socialmedia blasts.#FactCheck #TrumpLies #law #DOGE #privacy #InfoSec
(DIR) Post #AvBq0JzdFgMIFC1Jku by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-06-16T13:57:02Z
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The Times’s investigation found that #Musk became fixated on #SocialSecurity in early February after members of his team misread government spending data — a pivotal & previously unreported moment that #DOGE believed had exposed massive fraud inside the agency.#Trump #FactCheck #TrumpLies #law #DOGE #privacy #InfoSec
(DIR) Post #AvBq2WaBPoP9rwAQbo by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-06-16T13:57:27Z
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In response, #Musk’s team mobilized dozens of #SocialSecurity employees to *affirm* their views about fraud & began a project to ensure dead people were properly classified so they weren’t mistakenly paid — even though #DOGE officials acknowledged in an internal memo that payments were not being made in those cases.#Trump #FactCheck #TrumpLies #law #privacy #InfoSec
(DIR) Post #AvBq91GcFDCylx6zYm by lawyersgunsnmoney@mstdn.social
2025-06-16T13:58:34Z
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@Nonilex Dudek is a Quisling and an #enemyofthepeople He needs to be called out for his treachery permitting the wholesale theft everyone’s sensitive private information
(DIR) Post #AvBqItxKHX0ozdnk6C by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-06-16T14:00:21Z
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#DOGE leaders pressured agency executives to hire a 21-year-old former INTERN at #Palantir, a #data analysis & #technology firm, & grant him #access to the #PersonalData of EVERY #SocialSecurity cardholder despite the executives’ concerns that he lacked sufficient training to handle such sensitive #information.#Trump #FactCheck #TrumpLies #law #Musk #privacy #InfoSec
(DIR) Post #AvBqMTpBNaPH6fhNE8 by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-06-16T14:01:02Z
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#Musk’s deputies became so intent on their work at #SocialSecurity that they pushed employees to continue giving them access to sensitive agency data even after a federal judge demanded that DOGE’s access be cut off, acc/to 2 people…. #SCOTUS ruled this month that #DOGE’s access can resume.#Trump #FactCheck #TrumpLies #law #privacy #InfoSec
(DIR) Post #AvBqOYJPfKdxbUpK7M by amalia22@mastodon.social
2025-06-16T14:01:23Z
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@Nonilex 🤔
(DIR) Post #AvBqcaarynXujZgY76 by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-06-16T14:03:56Z
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NYT also reviewed previously unreported emails that showed how #DOGE members used the agency for #political aims, directing Dudek to cancel important contracts in #Maine after the state’s governor, a #Democrat, clashed w/ #Trump.This account of DOGE’s #SocialSecurity takeover is based on interviews with >70 current & fmr employees, many of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity out of fear of retaliation, & a review of hundreds of pages of internal documents & court records.#law #Musk
(DIR) Post #AvBvMA3ZNMDdZI5yHQ by huntingdon@mstdn.social
2025-06-16T14:56:58Z
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@Nonilex Unless that 21-yr-old intern from Palantir that DOGE pressured agency executives to hire is named Thiel, they're a conduit to Palantir, nothing more.
(DIR) Post #AvBy4FMhCSUggMBtOC by Crovanian@mastodon.social
2025-06-16T15:27:18Z
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@Nonilex why would scammers call customer service? Why would anyone want to call customer service? Musk has never had to call customer service.
(DIR) Post #AvC1MUUK0lj8f09HqC by Barbramon1@mas.to
2025-06-16T16:04:15Z
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@Nonilex It was revealed that in 2024 there was a massive data breach that compromised tens of millions of Social Security numbers and other personal information.As if that wasn't bad enough, in 2025 musk's unqualified, unvetted persons were allowed complete access to every Social Security account. What did they do, what will they do with our data???