“Free-Speech Absolutism? Huh.”

That checkmark once meant
an account was verified –
Identity sealed.

Government profiles
were required to archive
as of Trump’s first term.

Every engagement,
message, transaction, and like –
data’s saved and stored.

When Elon bought 𝕏,
verification became
a commodity.

Now DOGE has just one
social media account
with a blue checkmark.

Bet DOGE won’t comply
Elon Musk, dude, I dare you:
Give a reason why.

❧

03-11-2025
@bykaileyann

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Author’s Note:

In 2018, I worked for a government organization and led the writing and development of the organization’s social media policies specifically to comply with the Freedom of Information Act. Official government accounts (profiles registered with ‘.gov’ or agency-issued email addresses) must archive their social media content and activity. Not all FOIA requests are fulfilled (some data IS sensitive and private), but all requests MUST receive a response.

We should all submit FOIA requests for DOGE social media archives and demand to know WHY when Elon Musk, inevitably, refuses to comply with the law.

There’s a reason nobody in the Trump administration will say that Elon Musk leads DOGE. The “official US government website” DOGE.gov uses canonical tags pointing to 𝕏 source code, unlike… “All the other US government websites WIRED checked… [using] their own homepage in their canonical tags, including the official White House website…” (Source: https://www.wired.com/story/doge-website-is-just-one-big-x-ad/).