In May, the White House announced that its new app would be automatically downloaded onto the work phones of millions of government employees. The problem: Federal workers hate it and can’t get rid of it.

Employees of the US Department of Agriculture, the State Department, and the Department of Labor, who spoke to WIRED on the condition of anonymity due to fear of retaliation, say that they were disturbed when the app appeared on their phones. Some attempted to delete it, but to no avail.

“I deleted it as a test and it came immediately back,” says an employee from the USDA.

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[–] [S] 11 points 4 months ago

lmao

The app, which debuted in March, promises a mixture of “real-time updates, live events, and direct access to the Presidency,” according to the White House website. It is, apparently, the same version that is available to the public on the Apple and Google app stores. A button within the app allows users to “text President Trump,” which autofills a text bubble reading “Greatest President Ever.”

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    [–] 5 points 4 months ago

    On paper, it's an official government news app being pushed over MDM to phones that are definitionally government property. There's not really ground to stand on here.

    The fact that it's pure propaganda rather than an actually useful source of executive branch news is more a problem of the "White House News feed" or whatever you want to call it. It's a big fucking important problem.

    But this is effectively whining that the fleet car you borrowed from work phones it's GPS location home. Oh no, a phone your work bought and paid for runs apps your work auto installs to it? Then only use it for work shit bozo, it's not your personal device.

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