X owner Elon Musk on Friday floated the possibility of bringing back Marko Elez, the racist former Department of Government Efficiency staff member who was fired after the Wall Street Journal exposed his past racist social media posts.
Writing on X Friday morning, Musk asked his followers if he should "Bring back DOGE staffer who made inappropriate statements via a now deleted pseudonym?" and then posted a poll to allow them give their input.
As of this writing, the overwhelming number of participants in the poll advised Musk to bring back his racist former staff member.
As the WSJ reported on Thursday, Elez made a number of racist posts pseudonymously that included recommendations to "normalize Indian hate" and boasts that "just for the record, I was racist before it was cool."
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Elez, a graduate of Rutgers University and an employee at Musk companies SpaceX and Starlink, left a trail of breadcrumbs that allowed the Journal to identify his use of a pseudonymous account.
"The deleted @nullllptr account previously went by the username @marko_elez, a review of archived posts shows,” the Journal revealed. “The user behind the @nullllptr also described themselves as an employee at SpaceX and Starlink, where Elez has worked, according to archives of Elez’s personal website.”
Bring back @DOGE staffer who made inappropriate statements via a now deleted pseudonym?
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 7, 2025