DOGE employees are also using Signal—the app that landed Mike Walz in hot water for a week—to message each other. And on top of that, DOGE employees are working live on Google Docs instead of using the single copy vetting and chain of custody process that is standard operating procedure for the government.

The surveillance would mark an extraordinary use of technology to identify expressions of perceived disloyalty in a workforce already upended by widespread firings and severe cost cutting.

Staff with the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) are using AI to spy on communications sent by federal workers in at least one agency so they can detect any anti-Donald Trump or anti-Elon Musk language,