Elon Musk tells The Economist editor-in-chief Zanny Minton Beddoes that she doesn’t realize how many people hate the media. <\/p>\n
ELON MUSK: I am against having, if people are coming to a country with antithetical views, I am against that. I’m against rape and murder. I’m against the imposition of rules and laws that are contrary to what we’ve come to accept in the West. And I think it’s a crying shame that the sort of traditional media like you don’t recognize this. ZANNY MINTON BEDDOES, THE ECONOMIST: Why should you be able to shape European politics? You don’t even live there. MUSK: I think of it as sort of the West collectively. BEDDOES: But do you see why this makes people think that this man who has all this power, he’s the world’s richest man, he thinks he has a right to influence our politics. We started this conversation saying superlatives. It’s why people loathe you. Some people do loathe you. MUSK: Yes, some people do. BEDDOES: But do you understand why? Do you think what you’re doing is helpful for Western democracy? MUSK: Maybe some people do loathe me. And that’s probably true. I don’t care. But the fact that, as you pointed out, a quarter billion people follow me is that I think a lot more people actually like me than don’t. And I think a lot more people hate you and the media more than you realize.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n