As an ex-Twitter boss, I have a way to grab Elon Musk’s attention. If he keeps stirring unrest, get an arrest warrant

It cannot be right that Musk can sow discord without personal risk. He’s a jetsetter: perhaps fear of unexpected detention will concentrate his mind

Elon Musk himself has taken on the aura of a teenager on the bus with no headphones, creating lots of noise but not exactly winning people over. Photo: AP/Susan Walsh

The way social media is making headlines currently is not without precedent: a fragile narcissist posting relentlessly on a social network he’s made his own.

We know well how this has ended in the past; Donald Trump’s furious posts after his election defeat led to the assault on the Capitol on  January 6, 2021. The aftermath of that episode saw the then president suspended from Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and even, to the dismay of those hoping to mood-board the Mar-a-Lago aesthetic, Pinterest.