A troubling new investigation by WIRED has identified six young, inexperienced engineers—most with direct connections to Elon Musk and Peter Thiel—who have been given root-level access to critical federal infrastructure, including the Treasury Department’s payment system and the Office of Personnel Management (OPM). These individuals, some barely out of college, have no government experience yet hold significant power over systems that control Social Security payments, financial records, and potentially classified information.
Who Are These People?
The six engineers uncovered by WIRED are:
Akash Bobba (ex-Palantir, Meta, Bridgewater hedge fund)
Edward Coristine (listed as an "expert" at OPM, reports directly to Musk's hire Amanda Scales)
Luke Farritor (former SpaceX intern, Thiel Fellow, and AI prodigy)
Gautier Cole Killian (DOGE “volunteer” with internal government access)
Gavin Kliger (former Databricks engineer, now “special adviser” at OPM)
Ethan Shaotran (Harvard senior, OpenAI-backed startup founder, Musk-affiliated AI researcher)
Musk’s Takeover of Federal Infrastructure
These six men are part of Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)—a shadowy, privately controlled operation granted sweeping power over federal agencies. Reports indicate that DOGE personnel have:
✅ Gained access to Treasury’s payment system, putting Social Security, federal payroll, and citizen tax records at risk.
✅ Illegally accessed classified material at USAID, resulting in the suspension of top security officials who tried to stop them.
✅ Forced federal employees at the GSA to justify their jobs, while using personal Gmail accounts for government work.
✅ Bypassed federal hiring standards, placing unvetted individuals in positions of immense power.
Don Moynihan, a professor of public policy at the University of Michigan, calls this an “unprecedented hostile takeover of government infrastructure by the world’s richest man.”
Neo-Nazi Connections & Dangerous Ideologies
Musk’s DOGE operatives are not just tech bros with too much power—they have direct links to white nationalist movements, far-right extremism, and authoritarian ideology:
Gavin Kliger has retweeted Nick Fuentes, a prominent neo-Nazi and leader of the white supremacist Groyper movement.
Edward Coristine appears in data breaches as a paid subscriber to Andrew Tate’s far-right men’s rights grift.
DOGE itself has ties to Trump-era neo-Nazi infiltration, with the Office of Personnel Management previously infiltrated by Oliver Krvaric, a Hitler-praising fascist who stormed the Capitol on January 6th.
The Consequences of Musk’s Coup
This is not just a story about unqualified people in government. These individuals now have the ability to shut down entire agencies by simply turning off their funding spigots.
Musk has already boasted that he has “found” $4 billion in “waste” per day—money that he and his team are now in a position to cut off. But what does that mean?
Could Social Security payments suddenly stop without explanation?
Could USAID funding be cut off overnight, as happened after DOGE personnel illegally accessed classified data?
Could federal medical records be manipulated or erased by unvetted 20-somethings loyal to Musk?
This is regulatory capture at an unprecedented scale.
What Comes Next?
Congress currently has no oversight over Musk’s DOGE appointees, since they are not legally considered public officials. This is a crisis of democracy, as unelected billionaire operatives are given power over your financial records, your Social Security, and potentially even your voting infrastructure.
The time to expose this blatant coup is now. Journalists and whistleblowers inside government agencies must come forward. The public needs to demand answers.
Musk’s unaccountable technocratic dictatorship is here—but it’s not too late to fight back.