LOS ANGELES — Elon Musk defeated defamation allegations Friday from a British cave explorer who claimed he was branded a pedophile when the Tesla CEO called him “pedo guy” in an angry tweet. Musk said the verdict restored his faith in humanity as he quickly left the court with his security detail. “I accept the jury verdict, take it on the chin, and move on,” Unsworth said outside court. The day after Musk’s tweet about Unsworth, Tesla stock price fell 3% and shareholders and people within the company were urging him to apologize. He urged jurors to return a verdict that would make clear no reasonable person would conclude Musk had called him a pedophile.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer December 07, 2019 03:00 UTC