At least three individuals associated with Peter Thiel’s Palantir were involved in an online recruiting effort for Musk’s DOGE team late last year

February 9, 2025

As DOGE staffers—many of them young and with little or no government experience—continue to gain access to sensitive data across about a dozen government agencies, this is the first look at some of the networks from which the agency has recruited, and who they relied on to enlist talent.