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DOGE chief Musk polls X users if staffer who quit over racist tweets should be rehired

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Elon Musk launched a poll on his social media platform X asking users if a staffer at his DOGE team should be rehired after resigning over the exposure of tweets advocating for racism and eugenics.

The staffer, Marko Elez , resigned Thursday after The Wall Street Journal asked the White House about the 25-year-old 's connection to an X account that had made inflammatory posts.

"Just for the record, I was racist before it was cool," the account posted last summer .

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English

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