But Press conference in oval office This week, Elon Musk promised his so -called tasks Department of Efficiency (DOGE) The project will be “maximum transparent”, thanks for the information posted on its website.
At the time of their comment, Dog website was emptyHowever, when the site finally came online on Thursday morning, it turned out a little more than a magnificent feed of the post from the official Dogge account on its X platform of Musk, raising new questions about Musk Conflict of interest in running dog,
Doge.gov claims that “an official website of the United States government”, but instead of wide breakdown of cost savings and effectiveness, Kasturi claims that its project is making, the site's homepage has only posted the post from DOGE account on X Is repeated. ,
A wired review of the page source code shows that promoting the musc's own platform deepened to copy the post on the homepage. Source code shows that the site Canonical tag Direct search engine on x.com instead of dog.gov.
A prescribed tag code is a snipet that explains to the search engine what is the official version of a website. This is usually used by sites with several pages as a search engine adaptation strategy, so that their search rankings are avoided getting diluted.
However, in the case of Dogge, the code search is informing engines that when people search for the material found on Doge.Gov, they should not show those pages in search results, but instead the posts should be displayed on X. .
“It is promoting the X account as the main source, the website promoting with secondary,” Decklon Chidlo, A web developerTells Wired. “It is usually not how things are handled, and it indicates that the X account is taking priority on the real website itself.”
All other US government websites were wired check, which uses its own homepage in its canonical tag, including the official White House website. Additionally, when sharing the DOGE website on mobile devices, the source code creates a link to the DOGE X account instead of the website.
“It seems that the DOGE website is secondary, and they are hurting people in the direction of X account everywhere,” says Chidlo.
With the homepage feed of the X post, now a section of the “savings” labels Doge.Gov appears. So far the page is empty except except for a single line that reads: “Soon the receipts coming, not later in Valentine's Day,” A heart emoji,
A section called “Workforce” shows a few times a chart showing how many people work in each government agency, with information coming from the data collected by the Personnel Management Office in March 2024.
In a rejecting at the bottom of the page, it is written: “It is Dogi's attempt to create a broad, government-wide ORG chart. This is a very big effort, and there is a possibility of some errors or lapses. We will continue to try for maximum accuracy over time. ,
Another section, titled “Regulations”, in which Dog “is called the” Unconstitutional Index “, which he describes as the number of agency rules made by the undisclosed bureaucrats for each law passed by the Congress in 2024. “