I wish that journalists would stop uncritically buying into Musk's framing of what DOGE is doing as an audit. You can tell it is not an audit because it is being done by people with zero experience in auditing and the methodology is "poke around in files, looking for keywords without any context."
@evacide
There is also the fact that he hired programmers and not accountants.
@mral @evacide It's not all that clear-cut. This is usually said when a lie, cheating or something similar is obvious. So money was transferred to terrorists. But it's not that clear-cut. You're not an accountant. You're not a politician! Your job is to give the money to us, and we'll figure out how to spend it! That's what they used to say in the USSR.