alt Hacker News> The Post is not naming the former DOGE member or company because it has not independently confirmed the accusations in the complaint.
Why not? Shouldn't the public be allowed to learn who all the DOGE employees were? Federal employees are public record, are they not?
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The public is...unintelligent, and generally incapable of differentiating between an accusation and a conviction.
It’s an allegation, and the names of alleged perpetrators of crimes are rarely protected like this. Certainly feels like special treatment.
If the Post named you as someone who did something, and you didn't do that thing, and that thing harmed you in some way, you would sue them. That would cost the Post money, and they obviously don't want to spend money on anything that their staff does.
Typically you prevent publishing the names of minors accused of a crime /s
That said there is a list by propublica: https://projects.propublica.org/elon-musk-doge-tracker/
Because in a civilized society, everyone is presumed innocent until proven guilty and the accused are given some level of privacy until that happens.
They're not naming them because they haven't been able to confirm the wrongdoing, not because they can't publish the names of DOGE employees.