DOGE’s AI Dragnet: Elon Musk, Surveillance Capitalism, and the Rise of Digital Fascism

Algorithmic repression, settler panic, and the empire’s new digital front line

They used to need men in suits with wiretaps. Now all they need is Elon Musk, a chatbot, and a few billion lines of code.

According to recent reports, Musk’s DOGE—yes, that’s the official name of the Department of Government Efficiency—is using artificial intelligence to monitor U.S. federal employees for “anti-Trump sentiment.” Internal emails are being scanned. Encrypted communications are being probed. Loyalty, apparently, now lives in the server.

This isn’t about “efficiency.” It’s about Empire 2.0, where dissent is managed not by argument or suppression, but by algorithmic preemption. Before you even finish your email, before your group chat meets, the machine already knows whether you’re on-brand.

This is what we at Weaponized Information define as technofascism: the fusion of authoritarian political power with predictive, privatized, and AI-enhanced systems of total surveillance. A counterinsurgency model for the settler empire in crisis.

And now it’s got a name: DOGE.

Let’s talk brass tacks: DOGE is Musk’s direct pipeline into the guts of the U.S. government. His agents are embedded in the Office of Personnel Management. They’ve seized access to internal data flows. They’re running backchannel surveillance through Signal, violating every federal recordkeeping law on the books. And no one is stopping them—because this isn’t a rogue actor. This is the informal merger of Silicon Valley’s techno-oligarchy with the naked authoritarianism of Trump 2.0.

Musk’s chatbot “Grok”—named, of course, after a sci-fi novel about hive-mind submission—is now being used to “analyze” federal communications. For what? Disloyalty. Undue independence. Political unreliability. In other words, Grok is the algorithmic reincarnation of COINTELPRO, minus the paperwork.

We now live in a political regime where artificial intelligence is being deployed to detect thoughtcrimes among civil servants. And no, not in China. In Washington. In your agencies. In your inbox.

Of course, the liberal pundits are outraged—but mostly because Musk is “undermining trust in institutions.” As if the real threat is that the surveillance state is being run by a megalomaniac, instead of a committee.

But we see the deeper architecture. This is not an abuse of the system. This is the system evolving—toward total data integration, automated ideological policing, and the consolidation of executive power in the hands of technocratic billionaires aligned with a hyper-reactionary state.

It is the next phase in the colonial project: settler counterinsurgency conducted in the cloud. Every worker becomes a potential insurgent. Every byte becomes a bullet. Every thought becomes a threat.

Welcome to the new American efficiency.

And don’t be fooled by the acronym. DOGE isn’t just another bureaucratic experiment. It is the tip of the spear in a broader imperial recalibration—where labor discipline, state repression, and political conformity are outsourced to machines and the moguls who own them.

This is capitalism in crisis. This is imperialism on defense. This is technofascism on the move.

Redlines are being drawn in algorithms and encrypted chats.
And if we don’t build a revolutionary firewall, fast, we’re all getting flagged.