British cave diver sues Elon Musk for defamation over “pedo guy” tweets
by Timothy B. Lee from Ars Technica - All content on (#3YZN8)
Enlarge / Elon Musk in 2015. (credit: ODD ANDERSEN/AFP/Getty Images)
For weeks, Tesla CEO Elon Musk has been spoiling for a legal fight with Vernon Unsworth, the British cave diver who played a key role in rescuing a dozen teenagers and their coach from a flooded cave in Thailand.
After Unsworth criticized the "submarine" Musk built to help with the rescue effort, Musk responded by calling Unsworth a pedophile-without a shred of evidence. Unsworth then threatened to sue Musk for defamation.
"I fucking hope he sues me," Musk said in an email to a Buzzfeed News reporter in late August.
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