Tesla co-founder Elon Musk testifies at his defamation trial that his 'pedo guy' Twitter message was not meant to be taken literally and was sent in response to an 'unprovoked' insult
Trial began in US District Court in Los Angeles in a defamation lawsuit brought against Tesla Elon Musk by British cave diver Vernon Unsworth over three July 15, 2018 tweets by the Tesla chief executive, one calling him"pedo guy."
Tesla co-founder Elon Musk said Tuesday he did not literally call a British caver a pedophile during their infamous spat on Twitter, telling a Los Angeles federal court that he had simply defended himself from unprovoked insults. During the July 2018 row, Unsworth had described the 48-year-old entrepreneur's proposal to build a mini-submarine to rescue the boys as a "PR stunt."
"The tweets are not allegations of crimes. They are joking, taunting tweets in a fight between two men," Spiro told the court.
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