Elon Musk defends 'pedo guy' tweet in defamation trial

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Musk felt compelled to write the tweets as he was hurt by the suggestion that he was seeking publicity when he offered to help in the cave rescue.

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 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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