March 13, 2026 @ 11:26 PM Share on Social Media CNN Stands by Iran Coverage, Says Trump White House Has 'Obvious Motive' to Decry Fake News Fox, along with fellow ex DOGE employee Nate Cavanaugh, found themselves targeted online after the groups posted nearly 25 hours of deposition footage from the case and the New York Times picked up on the testimonies. Before long, clips from the depositions began to spread on social media. Fox especially became the subject of extensive online harassment after a clip of him struggling to define DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) made the media rounds. “Yeah, my understanding was exactly what was written in the [Executive Order],” Fox said at the time. “Any time that we would look at a grant through the lens of complying with an executive order, we would just refer back to the EO and assess if this grant had relation to it.” He was later asked to apply his understanding of DEI to certain projects that saw their funding impacted, including a documentary centering on female Holocaust survivors. When you build a machine to target people based on gender, race, or any other identity, it ends up targeting Jews too. New deposition testimony shows a DOGE staffer flagged a Holocaust documentary for termination. The film told the story of Jewish women forced into slave labor… pic.twitter.com/Yf5kRZD1od