Staffer With Elon Musk’s DOGE Amplified White Supremacists Online

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. {snip}

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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.

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In response to a post about New York Mayor Eric Adams possibly shutting down a migrant shelter in November, Kliger wrote: “Just leave them be for a few more months. Will be much more convenient to deport them all if they are in one spot.”

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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. {snip}

Kliger has also reposted social media influencer and self-described misogynist Andrew Tate.

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The post, shared by Kliger, exhorts foreigners to “respect British culture, standards of hygiene and social norms. You operate within our parameters … Problem? leave … Multiple complaints of the contrary? Visa revoked.”

Another Department of Government Efficiency staffer, Marko Elez, quit on Thursday amid questions from the Wall Street Journal about links to a deleted social-media account that advocated for racism and eugenics, according to the Journal’s subsequently published story. {snip}

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