A federal judge delivered a pair of legal setbacks to tech billionaire Elon Musk this week, rejecting Musk’s attempt to throw out a defamation lawsuit brought against him by a British cave explorer whom Musk had accused on Twitter of being a “pedo guy'
A federal judge delivered a pair of legal setbacks to tech billionaire Elon Musk this week, rejecting Musk’s attempt to throw out a defamation lawsuit brought against him by a British cave explorer whom Musk had accused on Twitter of being a “pedo guy.”
Musk had also argued that Unsworth was a public figure because of his participation in a high-profile rescue of a youth soccer team trapped in a cave in Thailand last year. Public figures need to meet a high legal bar called “actual malice” — essentially knowing a statement is false when the statement is made and making it anyway — to prove defamation.
In response to questions about Wilson’s ruling, a lawyer for Musk, Alex Spiro, said, “We look forward to the trial.” Musk lashed out at Unsworth on Twitter in a series of posts and called him a “pedo guy.” Musk later deleted and apologized for those messages. Laura Prather, a First Amendment lawyer with the law firm Haynes and Boone who is not involved in the case, said the determination that Unsworth was a private figure made it much easier for him to succeed in trial.
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