Elon Musk trial: Vernon Unsworth says entrepreneur's tweets 'humiliated' him
by Julia Carrie Wong in Los Angeles from Technology | The Guardian on (#4W3FR)
Tesla CEO faces questions over whether 'pedo guy' tweet was defamatory and if he tried to take credit for Thai cave rescue
Did Elon Musk "try to take credit in any way for the rescue operation" that saved 12 young Thai footballers and their coach from imminent death in the Tham Luang cave network last summer? Did he deserve any? And if he didn't, who did?
Those were the questions at the center of the billionaire's second day of testimony in the defamation case brought by Vernon Unsworth, a British cave explorer, against the Tesla entrepreneur. Unsworth told the federal court in Los Angeles that Musk's 15 July 2018 tweet calling him "pedo guy" made him feel "humiliated, ashamed, dirty".
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