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Dec. 4, 2019

Musk testimony opens defamation trial over his ‘pedo guy’ tweet

Kicking off the first day of a defamation trial brought by a cave diver he labeled "pedo guy," Tesla CEO Elon Musk testified Tuesday you can't believe everything you read on Twitter.

Musk testimony opens defamation trial over his ‘pedo guy’ tweet
MUSK / New York Times News Service

LOS ANGELES -- Kicking off the first day of a defamation trial brought by a cave diver he labeled "pedo guy," Tesla CEO Elon Musk testified Tuesday you can't believe everything you read on Twitter.

Compared to the combative tone he took in the midst of a heated Twitter feud with plaintiff Vernon Unsworth, Musk was soft-spoken and polite as he explained the sequence of events that prompted the case. Musk told the federal jury he was ...

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