Washington, DC — On Saturday, the National Transportation Safety Board announced that updates about recent, fatal plane crashes in Washington, DC and Philadelphia, PA will only be posted on X, a social media platform owned by Elon Musk. This is yet another sign of Musk’s corporate takeover of the federal government, which also includes him installing lackeys from his companies at the Office of Personnel Management, trying to seize control of a highly sensitive Treasury Department payment system, pressuring the Federal Aviation Administration administrator to resign before the deadly crashes happened and a DOGE-directed purge at the U.S. Agency for International Development.
Demand Progress Education Fund has been sounding the alarm about Musk’s influence on government and recently helped launch No Corporate Cabinet, an online resource documenting corporate conflicts of interest in the executive branch.
The following is a statement from Demand Progress Education Fund Communications Director Eric Naing:
“Elon Musk is engaging in a corporate takeover of the federal government and the American people are already paying the staggering price. It is clearly not in the public interest for the government to offer critical information about recent disasters only on a private social media platform owned by the billionaire patron of the president.
What’s happening at the NTSB, USAID, Treasury, FAA and OPM are clear signs that the world’s richest man is running the federal government like he runs his companies: catastrophically, and exclusively in service of his personal, political and financial interests.”