Trump appoints Airbnb co-founder to revamp public (government) websites

[u/Choobeen]

https://www.dw.com/en/trump-appoints-airbnb-co-founder-to-revamp-public-websites-after-musk-doge-exit/a-73744139

[u/heavy-minium]

It's obvious for a few people what the intention is but nobody will speak about it before it's too late. It's not always easy as dictator to connect those federal systems full of data with a private company like Palantir while escaping the awareness of the opposition. But going directly at the source where all the data is being entered, whether for public services or intranet government websites, that would not appear on any politicians radar.

This is why the "designer in chief" and it's new agency is perceived as a replacement for DOGE. It wasn't about efficiency, it was about citizen data access.