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Elon Musk cleared of defamation over "pedo guy" tweet @ 2019-12-07T20: Back Hot News
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MUSK INVOLVED HIMSELF IN THE THAI CAVE RESCUE BY INSTRUCTING HIS EMPLOYEES TO BUILD A MINI SUBMARINE TO HELP SAVE THE BOYS. UNSWORTH SAID IN A CNN INTERVIEW THAT MUSK SHOULD "STICK HIS SUBMARINE WHERE IT HURTS." AFTER SEEING THE INTERVIEW, MUSK FIRED OFF HIS "PEDO GUY" TWEET ON JULY 15, 2018. IN HIS OPENING STATEMENT, SPIRO SAID MUSK"S TWEET "WAS A JOKING, DELETED, APOLOGIZED FOR, RESPONSIVE TWEET. A JDART."
THE CASE STEMS FROM AN OFFER BY MUSK TO SEND MINIATURE SUBMARINES TO AID IN THE RESCUE OF THE TRAPPED SOCCER TEAM. UNSWORTH, WHO WAS INVOLVED IN THE RESCUE OPERATION, WAS CRITICAL OF MUSK"S OFFER, WHICH LED TO A PUBLIC FEUD ONLINE IN WHICH MUSK REFERRED TO UNSWORTH VIA TWITTER AS A "CHILD RAPIST" AND A "[PEDOPHILE] GUY."
IN HIS DEFENCE, MUSK INSISTED THE PHRASE 「PEDO GUY」 WAS COMMONLY USED IN HIS NATIVE SOUTH AFRICA AND MEANT 「CREEPY OLD GUY」, RATHER THAN BEING AN ALLEGATION OF PAEDOPHILIA.
ELON MUSK DID NOT DEFAME A BRITISH CAVE EXPLORER WHEN HE CALLED HIM "PEDO GUY" IN AN ANGRY TWEET, A LOS ANGELES JURY FOUND FRIDAY. VERNON UNSWORTH, WHO PARTICIPATED IN THE RESCUE OF 12 BOYS AND THEIR SOCCER COACH TRAPPED FOR WEEKS IN A THAILAND CAVE LAST YEAR, HAD ANGERED THE TESLA CEO BY BELITTLING HIS EFFORT TO HELP WITH THE RESCUE AS A "PR STUNT."
BASED ON STATEMENTS BY MUSK"S LAWYER, ALEXANDER SPIRO, MUSK APPEARS TO BE SET TO DEFEND HIMSELF ON THE BASIS THAT CALLING SOMEONE "PEDO GUY" AND "CHILD RAPIST" IS NOT THE SAME THING AS ACCUSING THEM OF BEING A PEDOPHILE OR CHILD RAPIST. MUSK ARGUES THAT "PEDO GUY" IS A COMMON INSULT IN HIS NATIVE SOUTH AFRICA AND SHOULD NOT BE CONSIDERED TO BE A STATEMENT OF FACT.
IN DEPOSITIONS MUSK HAS ALSO ARGUED THAT BY CALLING UNSWORTH "PEDO GUY" HE WASN"T LITERALLY ACCUSING HIM OF BEING A PEDOPHILE BECAUSE THE TERM WAS USED TO BE SYNONYMOUS WITH "CREEPY OLD MAN" WHEN HE WAS GROWING UP IN SOUTH AFRICA. HE ALSO CLAIMED HE WAS GENUINELY WORRIED UNSWORTH COULD BE "ANOTHER JEFFREY EPSTEIN."
THE BRITISH CAVE EXPLORER SUING ELON MUSK HAS TESTIFIED HE FELT "BRANDED A PAEDOPHILE" BY THE BILLIONAIRE ENTREPRENEUR, DESPITE MR MUSK"S ASSERTION THAT HIS "PEDO GUY" TWEET AT THE HEART OF THE DEFAMATION CASE WAS NOT MEANT TO BE TAKEN LITERALLY.

 

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