Elon Musk revealed that he hired a private investigator for $50,000 to look into the British caver he called a “pedo guy” on Twitter. Now, he's asking a judge to toss the man's defamation lawsuit.
Elon Musk revealed that he hired a private investigator for $50,000 to look into a British caver whom he called a “pedo guy” in a 2018 tweet.
Musk revealed that one of his trusted aides commissioned a private investigator to conduct an investigation of Unsworth on Musk’s behalf.Musk’s legal team asked the judge to dismiss the case before a scheduled Dec. 2 trial, arguing that a BuzzFeed article about his tiff with Unsworth and his tweets don’t meet the legal standard of defamation.
“Mr. Unsworth cannot establish a defamation case just because Mr. Musk insulted him on Twitter and sent a private email to a reporter,” they wrote in the court filing. “The Constitution does not allow that.”In April, a federal judge in Los Angeles rejected Musk’s request to dismiss Unsworth’s case.
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