"DOGE fired them. Elon Musk’s 'Department of Government Efficiency' gutted USDS and 18F — the organizations that were actually doing what DOGE claimed to be doing — and replaced their expertise with… whatever this is. An app built by an outfit called 'forty-five-press'…running on WordPress, with 'Greatest President Ever!' hardcoded in the source, loading code from some random person’s GitHub Pages, and shipping the developer’s home IP address to the public."

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/03/30/the-white-house-apps-propaganda-is-the-least-alarming-thing-about-it/

The White House App’s Propaganda Is The Least Alarming Thing About It

Call me crazy, but I don’t think an official government app should be loading executable code from a random person’s GitHub account. Or tracking your GPS location in the background. Or …

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