On Press conference at the Oval Office This week, Elon Musk promised that the actions of his so -called government department (dog) will be “maximally transparent” thanks to information published on his website.
At the time of his commentary The dog website was empty. However, when the site finally appeared on the internet on Thursday morning, it turned out that it is not much more than the beloved feed of posts from the official Doge account on your own platform X Musk, raising recent questions about musk Conflicts of interest in conducting dogs.
Doge.Gov claims that it is “the official website of the United States Government,” but instead of a detailed division of savings and efficiency, as he claims that its project has, and the home page simply replicated posts from the Doge account to X.
The wired review of the source code of the page shows that the promotion of your own musk platform has gone deeper than reproducing posts on the main page. The source code shows that the site Canonic tags Direct search engines for x.com instead of dog.
The canonical marker is a fragment of the code that informs the search engine about the authoritative version of the website. It is usually used by websites with many pages as a tactic of search engines to avoid diluted search ranking.
However, in the case of DOGE, the code informs search engines that when people are looking for content found on Doge.Gov, they should not display these pages in search results, but instead they should display posts on X.
“Promotes account X as the main source and the secondary website”, Declan Chidlow, Website creatorsays Wired. “This is usually not a way of service, and indicates that account X has priority in front of the site.”
All other websites of the US government that checked, used their own main page in their canonical tags, including on the official website of the White House. In addition, when sharing the Doge website on mobile devices, the source code creates a link to the Doge X account, and not to the website itself.
“It seems that the Doge website is secondary and they poke people towards account x wherever they can,” adds Chidlow.
In addition to the main pair of smoking x posts, now the Doge.gov section appears marked as “savings”. Until now, the site is empty, except for one poem, which reads: “There will soon be influence, no later than Valentine’s Day,” and then emoji of the heart.
The section entitled “Working force” contains some bar charts showing how many people work in every government agency, with information from data collected by the Personnel Management Office in March 2024.
The reservation at the bottom of the page is: “This is the effort to create a comprehensive, nationwide Table ORG. This is a huge effort and there are probably some errors or omissions. Over time, we will continue to strive for maximum accuracy. “
Another section, entitled “Regulations”, contains what the dog calls the “index of unconstitutionality”, which describes as “the number of agencies created by the necessary bureaucrats for each law adopted by the Congress in 2024”