Mick Clifford: Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter is a real-life horror worthy of Stephen King

Musk is just another wealthy man who has lost the run of himself. But his latest move could unleash further harm even worse than the flood of offensive content and the job losses

Stephen King's tweet about blue tick verification — and Elon Musk's extraordinary response to it — tell us a lot about the prospects for Twitter as a billionaire's social media vanity project. File picture: Scott Eisen/Getty

Elon Musk has a son by the name of X. He also had a daughter, who is an ex-Musk and, it’s fair to say, an ex-she, as he now has a new first name to reflect his gender identity and got rid of the surname because he no longer wanted to be a Musk.

The richest man in the world has a lot of other children, but last week he got delivery of his new baby, the social media platform Twitter.