You Need to Watch What Elon Musk Just Did to The Economist's Editor-in-Chief
You Need to Watch What Elon Musk Just Did to The Economist's Editor-in-Chief Matt Margolis | 10:00 AM on July 24, 2026 AP Photo/Evan Vucci Elon Musk sat down with The Economist's editor-in-chief, Zanny Minton Beddoes, and boy, did she get more than what she was asking for. If she thought she could lob a bunch of accusations against him, and he’d just take it sitting down. Musk's response exposed exactly how the media manufactures its labels."Yes, literally, you could go back 10 or 15 years, and these policies were completely normal," Musk said.
- ▪You Need to Watch What Elon Musk Just Did to The Economist's Editor-in-Chief Matt Margolis | 10:00 AM on July 24, 2026 AP Photo/Evan Vucci Elon Musk sat down with The Economist's editor-in-chief, Zanny Minton Beddoes, and boy, did she get m
- ▪If she thought she could lob a bunch of accusations against him, and he’d just take it sitting down.
- ▪Musk's response exposed exactly how the media manufactures its labels."Yes, literally, you could go back 10 or 15 years, and these policies were completely normal," Musk said.
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You Need to Watch What Elon Musk Just Did to The Economist's Editor-in-Chief Matt Margolis | 10:00 AM on July 24, 2026 AP Photo/Evan Vucci Elon Musk sat down with The Economist's editor-in-chief, Zanny Minton Beddoes, and boy, did she get more than what she was asking for. If she thought she could lob a bunch of accusations against him, and he’d just take it sitting down. Advertisement googletag.cmd.push(function () { googletag.display("div-gpt-300x250_3"); //googletag.pubads().refresh([gptAdSlot["div-gpt-300x250_3"]]) }); He didn’t.Instead, Beddoes got schooled, and the internet is still talking about it.The interview covered plenty of ground, but two exchanges stood out as the moments Musk completely dismantled Beddoes' entire premise.The first came when she tried to paint Musk as a…
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