Elon Musk to go to trial in December over 'pedo guy' tweet
by Adam Gabbatt from on (#4TBYR)
Los Angeles district judge ruled jury will decide whether Tesla chief's statements about British diver amount to defamation
Elon Musk will go to trial in December, after a judge denied his request to throw out a defamation lawsuit by a British man Musk called a "pedo guy".
Los Angeles district judge Stephen Wilson said a jury would now decide whether Musk's statements about Vernon Unsworth, a British diver who helped rescue a team of young football players from an underwater cave in Thailand in 2018, amount to defamation.
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