Stephen Fowler

But Georgia's most populous county has been the subject of baseless claims of election fraud since 2020.

Last month, the Justice Department filed a lawsuit seeking to gain access to Fulton County's ballots, and a state court judge recently allowed the Republican Majority State Election Board to move forward with a subpoena for 2020 documents, too.

This as the DOJ has sued 25 states, including Georgia, seeking access to unredacted copies of their voter rolls.

Stephen Fowler, NPR News, Atlanta.

Court filings say the Doge employees were secretly in touch with an advocacy group seeking to overturn election results.

That potentially violates the law preventing government employees from using their jobs for political purposes.

The matter is now in the hands of the Office of Special Counsel.

This update is one of many revisions to testimony made last year by Social Security Administration officials in a case over Doge data access.

The document also reveals Doge employees may have inappropriately transferred sensitive data outside the organization, both through email and an unauthorized third-party server.

Stephen Fowler, NPR News.

Correct.

There are a lot of posts, and in the last two weeks, we've really seen this strategy lead to a lot of different headlines.

You've got Vice President J.D.

Vance frequently arguing with posters on social media about Minnesota, but also with the military operation in Venezuela, where Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is monitoring the situation with all of these screens of the social media site X in the background.

You've got the official White House account posting memes about seizing Greenland and declaring an end to a war on protein.

And if you also go back to this other thing that happened last year, Doge, the Department of Government Efficiency was something that was spawned by online conversations led by Elon Musk, the very online owner of a social media site.

And even the name itself is a meme.

So, Miles, I asked the White House a similar version of this question.

And if they had any sort of concerns that being very, very focused on a particular medium and speaking to a particular subset of people within that medium, if they were worried about the messaging leaving people behind who aren't as online or who might be turned off by some of the

And a White House spokesperson said, quote, The White House has an authentic style and unmatched communication strategy because it's led by the greatest communicator in the history of American politics, President Donald J. Trump.