Court lets Elon Musk off the hook in ‘pedo guy’ defamation case
08 December 2019 - 18:57
Los Angeles — Elon Musk beat back a defamation claim from a British cave expert who sued the billionaire CEO over a tweet in which Musk labelled Vernon Unsworth a “pedo guy”.
A federal jury in Los Angeles on Friday took about an hour to return a verdict that said Musk’s insult fell short of defamation...
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