Elon Musk has suggested he is “doing [his] bit” to address “underpopulation” after it emerged he had fathered twins with one of his employees.
The billionaire entrepreneur appeared to make oblique references to his latest offspring on Twitter on Thursday, after news broke that Shivon Zilis, a top executive at Mr Musk’s neurotechnology firm Neuralink, had birthed twins fathered by him in November 2021. “A collapsing birth rate is the biggest danger civilization faces by far,” Mr Musk, now a father of nine, wrote on Twitter. “Doing my best to help the underpopulation crisis,” he said in another tweet.
The twins’ birth was first reported by news website Business Insider, citing US court documents where Mr Musk and Ms Zilis had filed a petition to change their names.
The parents want their children to "have their father's last name" and for their middle names to contain their mother's last name, said the legal filings.
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