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If you’re being neurologically hammered by news from the front of Elon Musk’s coup, you’re probably reading scoops by Vittoria Elliott.

Whether you’ve clocked her byline or not, it’s Elliott’s jaw-dropping reporting—and that of her WIRED team—that is driving coverage of Musk’s occupation of the U.S. government.

On this episode of What Rough Beast, Vitto…