Some employees at the Department of Education changed their responses back to the more neutral language, only to have it changed yet again to the partisan response, multiple sources tell WIRED.

  • NocturnalEngineer@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    Surely the false personation laws would apply here then?

    They modified the out-of-office message to distribute a factually inaccurate statement, by using the shutdown recipient’s voice & inbound mail feed.

    • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
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      30 minutes ago

      The email accounts are owned by the government. If this was their personal email, sure, but it’s not.

      Edit to add: doesn’t make it right or justifiable, but there probably no legal recourse here.