{"id":21220,"date":"2025-01-30T17:16:55","date_gmt":"2025-01-30T18:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=21220"},"modified":"2025-01-30T18:27:56","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T18:27:56","slug":"musks-twitter-takeover-offers-trump-a-blueprint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=21220","title":{"rendered":"Musk\u2019s Twitter Takeover Offers Trump a Blueprint"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Federal agencies have offered exits to millions of employees and tested the prowess of engineers \u2014 just like when Elon Musk bought Twitter. The similarities have been uncanny.<\/p>\n

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The email landed in employees\u2019 inboxes with the subject line: \u201cFork in the Road.\u201d The message in the email was stark: Accept a sweeping set of workplace changes or resign.<\/p>\n

That was the note<\/a> that millions of federal employees received around 5 p.m. on Tuesday. It echoed a similar message that thousands of workers at Twitter got from Elon Musk in late 2022 after he bought the company.<\/p>\n

Mr. Musk has brought his takeover tactics from Twitter to the federal government, where he\u2019s become a close adviser to President Trump and is running the cost-cutting initiative called the Department of Government Efficiency. The administration is already eliminating diversity initiatives, testing engineering prowess and demanding federal employee loyalty, maneuvers Mr. Musk embraced to slash his social media company\u2019s budget and operations.<\/p>\n

The Tuesday email, sent by the Office of Personnel Management, was the latest example of the billionaire\u2019s fingerprints, down to the subject line \u2014 the same as his 2022 buyout offer to Twitter employees.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s a knife-at-your-throat feeling,\u201d said Rumman Chowdhury, a former Twitter executive who left the company, which is now known as X, after Mr. Musk\u2019s takeover. \u201cThe uncertainty is wild.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Rumman Chowdhury, a former Twitter executive who left the company after Mr. Musk\u2019s takeover. She recalled a \u201cknife-at-your-throat feeling\u201d under the new ownership. <\/span>Mikayla Whitmore for The New York Times<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Federal agencies have offered exits to millions of employees and tested the prowess of engineers \u2014 just like when Elon Musk bought Twitter. The similarities have been uncanny.The email landed in employees\u2019 inboxes with the subject line: \u201cFork in the Road.\u201d The message in the email was stark: Accept a sweeping set of workplace changes or resign.That was the note that millions of federal employees received around 5 p.m. on Tuesday. It echoed a similar message that thousands of workers at Twitter got from Elon Musk in late 2022 after he bought the company.Mr. Musk has brought his takeover tactics from Twitter to the federal government, where he\u2019s become a close adviser to President Trump and is running the cost-cutting initiative called the Department of Government Efficiency. The administration is already eliminating diversity initiatives, testing engineering prowess and demanding federal employee loyalty, maneuvers Mr. Musk embraced to slash his social media company\u2019s budget and operations.The Tuesday email, sent by the Office of Personnel Management, was the latest example of the billionaire\u2019s fingerprints, down to the subject line \u2014 the same as his 2022 buyout offer to Twitter employees.\u201cIt\u2019s a knife-at-your-throat feeling,\u201d said Rumman Chowdhury, a former Twitter executive who left the company, which is now known as X, after Mr. Musk\u2019s takeover. \u201cThe uncertainty is wild.\u201dRumman Chowdhury, a former Twitter executive who left the company after Mr. Musk\u2019s takeover. She recalled a \u201cknife-at-your-throat feeling\u201d under the new ownership. Mikayla Whitmore for The New York TimesWe are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21222,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21220"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21223,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21220\/revisions\/21223"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}