Elon Musk has taken to posting the identities of relatively unknown government officials and federal workers whose jobs he wants to eliminate, and his followers are taking it upon themselves to harass and threaten those they can find.
Following a series of posts from Musk earlier this week highlighting the names and titles of federal workers whose jobs he called “fake,” the targets of his social media activity are facing a barrage of online abuse, according to a report from CNN on Wednesday. Many of the employees highlighted by Musk do not have public-facing jobs, and have done nothing other than hold a title that displeases the billionaire who’s anointed himself Donald Trump’s co-president and is expected to help the president-elect slash government bureaucracy.
CNN’s review of Musk’s prolific posting habits found that over the course of the last week,…
