Faiz Siddiqui
@faizsays
Washington Post tech journalist writing a lot about Elon Musk, Twitter, Tesla. My book HUBRIS MAXIMUS: The Shattering of Elon Musk (St. Martin’s) is in stores NOW! How to buy:
“If you let takers vote, they will not only take more and more, they will make it more and more rewarding to be a taker...” Newly minted trillionaire Elon Musk:
My new book intro addresses what Elon Musk has been posting about relentlessly over the past several days: the dismantling of USAID. I wrote it in January 2026 and had no idea Musk would be on a tirade about the cuts the same week it published. I hope you'll read it in full.
“Just as [Musk] will forever be associated with mainstreaming electric cars and reviving the U.S. space program, what he chose to do during his brief stint in political power will define his legacy.”
🚨 My book Hubris Maximus is out in paperback TODAY with a new intro that delves into Elon Musk’s tear through Washington and the indelible stain on his life’s work that has resulted from wanton cuts to lifesaving aid. Pick up a copy wherever you get your books: us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
SpaceX financial performance by year: 2023: ~$4.6B loss 2024: $791M profit 2025: ~$4.9B loss 2026 (through March): ~$4.3B loss this is on track to the biggest IPO in history
SpaceX believes it has a $28.5 trillion total addressable market (the U.S. GDP is about $32 trillion)
A little-noticed X account in India was struggling to reach 100 followers when it announced: "Sit tight and have a view while I am working my way up the ladder." Two years later, it's the account Elon Musk interacts with the most. It lavishes praise on Musk and spreads his ideas. wapo.st/4nqjRYk
I’m so honored to have been part of the team that won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for our coverage of DOGE and the transformation of the government. Delayed in posting this because I spent most of yesterday stunned by the news. Incredible, inspiring group of colleagues.
folks, it's been a year since I looked extremely comfortable, normal and right at home going on national television to discuss my work -- pre-order the paperback of the book that led to this today!! thank you us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
My book Hubris Maximus: The Shattering of Elon Musk published a year ago today. Barnes & Noble called it a best book of 2025 & Kirkus called it an essential new book challenging big tech. PW cited its "meticulous reportage." Now you can pre-order the paperback: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/hubris-max...
The problem with trying to sell the masses on this messaging is that it's the tech moguls pushing it who stand to benefit. And they can't articulate how or why the wealth they'll generate would filter down wapo.st/4uTiDIr
Apropos of nothing, remembering the time a government made direct demands of a powerful “free speech”-oriented Elon Musk company, which faced the risk of being shut down there, and he blinked
Elon Musk on Forbes when it covered Tesla's plummeting stock: dying, desperate for attention Elon Musk when Forbes named him America's greatest innovator: thank you Forbes, very cool
Elon Musk's full comment on the Epstein files release, just posted on X:
Elon Musk, September 2025: “Epstein tried to get me to go to his island and I REFUSED”
Tesla ending the Model S and Model X takes it away from its roots as a car company. Models 3 and Y revenues underpin so many of its autonomous and robotics bets, so of course those aren't going anywhere. Musk says it's "slightly sad" but time to shift wapo.st/3LYTef1
World’s richest person — a man with government contracts hailed by some as a genius — engaging seriously with a post from someone calling themselves “retardmode” who argues for abolishing women’s right to vote
people who've come to the public realization that maybe Elon Musk's commitment to free speech wasn't all it was cracked up to be: Bari Weiss, Matt Taibbi, Ashley St. Clair
the thing about this, which Musk of all people should know well, is that are heaps of data (wheel angle, speed, accelerator pedal position) that can be used to assess whether this claim is remotely true. and yet he declares it as if it's a known and obvious fact
X's owner has decided he has seen enough to declare the Minneapolis ICE shooting an act of "self-defense"
"Photos show pry marks on the Cybertruck door, where firefighters tried to access the cabin. That effort was abandoned once it became clear that the operation was no longer a rescue." www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...
The cascading series of problems: 1) In a crash/fire, doors don’t open intuitively from the inside, 2) it’s similarly difficult to open them from the outside, 3) The windows don’t easily break. 4) If all else fails, the doors can’t be swiftly pried open. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...
The most revelatory answer from the just-dropped Katie Miller Podcast interview of Elon Musk is about the nature of wealth. Miller asks Musk what he would do if he had to start over with $1,000. Musk says the very idea is preposterous because he could talk people into giving him money.
Everyone having a normal one over the European Commission’s decision to fine X $140 million
why is everyone edging everyone in thanksgiving thrillers today (one of these isn't even correct!!)
One of the now-deleted Grok answers from yesterday: if eligible, Musk would beat Trump in a presidential election, in part due to “appeal to independents tired of political drama; and proven results turning ambitious ideas into reality.”