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What was Doge? How Elon Musk tried to gamify government

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Mar 27, 202600:31:29News & Politics

Steeped in gaming and rightwing culture wars, Musk and his team of teenage coders set out to defeat the enemy of the United States: its people By Ben Tarnoff and Quinn Slobodian. Read by Vincent Lai. Help support our ind...

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What was Doge? How Elon Musk tried to gamify government is an episode from The Guardian's Audio Long Reads by The Guardian. Steeped in gaming and rightwing culture wars, Musk and his team of teenage coders set out to defeat the enemy of the...

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