Staffer with Elon Musk's DOGE amplified white supremacists online

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Second DOGE Worker Promoted White Supremacists
February 7, 2025

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Staffer with Elon Musk's DOGE amplified white supremacists online

By Alexandra Alper and Raphael Satter
February 7, 20252:30 PM EST Updated an hour ago

WASHINGTON, Feb 7 (Reuters) - One of the people working with billionaire Elon Musk in his efforts to overhaul the U.S. government is a Berkeley-educated computer scientist who has boosted white supremacists and misogynists online. ... Gavin Kliger lists his job on LinkedIn as "Special Advisor to the Director" at the Office of Personnel Management, which has been spearheading Musk's efforts to shrink the federal workforce. His USAID email address was copied on a message reviewed by Reuters that was sent to staffers at the international aid agency on Monday. It urged them to stay home while the agency was being shut down.

He graduated in 2020 from the University of California, Berkeley with a 3.95 grade point average and degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, according to his LinkedIn profile. Reuters confirmed his attendance at Berkeley, but was unable to verify other details in his profile. ... Kliger is one of about a dozen men identified by Reuters and other news outlets who have been recruited by Musk and his DOGE office to reshape the federal government. Reuters could not determine the importance of Kliger’s role at OPM.

In social media posts between October 2024 and January, Kliger has voiced controversial views and reposted content from white supremacist Nick Fuentes and self-described misogynist Andrew Tate. ... n OPM spokeswoman declined to comment on Kliger's posts. Kliger did not respond to multiple requests for comment via email and text. Following Reuters' request for comment on Thursday evening, public access to Kliger's X account was blocked.

Kliger shared a December 4 post from Fuentes' X account. Kliger has since unshared the post, but Reuters examined a copy of the original repost via the Internet Archive. ... In the post on X, Fuentes mocks a post praising a photo of an apparently white couple pictured with two light-skinned children and a dark-skinned baby. In his post Fuentes referred to "adopted Black kids", denigrating the apparent interracial adoption. He also used the word "huzz", a pejorative term for women. Reuters could not immediately establish the identity or ethnicity of the people depicted. Fuentes did not respond to a request for comment on the post by email.

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Additional Reporting by Tim Reid in Washington and Julia Harte in New York; Reporting by Alexandra Alper; Editing by Chris Sanders and Daniel Wallis

Raphael Satter
Thomson Reuters

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