Elon Musk has revealed a private investigator he instructed his team to hire to dig into a British diver's past turned out to be 'a professional conman'. 9News
Mr Musk said he watched the interview two or three times, calling it "an unprovoked attack on what a good-natured attempt to help the kids".
"I was upset the guy was going on an unprovoked attack. A lot of people had worked incredibly hard," he said. Mr Musk testified because Mr Unsworth said the billionaire was asked to leave the cave site and that was untrue, he thought "Vernon Unsworth was unrelated to the cave dive effort".Mr Musk also tried to justify another tweet about Mr Unsworth which said, "I bet you a signed dollar it's true".He accepted he didn't know if the statement was true or false.He removed his tweet, widely interpreted as a reference to a paedophile, and disputed that's what he meant.
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